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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: process monitoring tool (like SysV init)? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 May 1997 08:12:33 +0200."
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Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 08:57:05 -0700
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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Thanks for the tip.  Looking at it now.

  From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
  Subject: Re: process monitoring tool (like SysV init)?
  As Paul Traina wrote:
  
  > I was thinking of hacking up a small program that would read a configuratio
>>n
  > file and then spawn and monitor the health of several child processes based
  > on the contents of the configuration file.
  
  spawnd.  Someone recently offered this to the ports list.  Please read
  the mailing list archive, and adopt this for a port.
  
  -- 
  cheers, J"org
  
  joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
  Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)