ghost@robecdc.UUCP (William.A.Sneed) (04/09/90)
Watcher would get you half the way there. It will do the monitoring based
on a list (ASCII file) of daemons. The remainder (auto restart) you would
have to do yourself. I don't think it would be that great of a problem,
however.
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In article <76@robecdc.UUCP> ghost@robecdc.UUCP (William.A.Sneed) writes: > >Watcher would get you half the way there. It will do the monitoring based >on a list (ASCII file) of daemons. The remainder (auto restart) you would >have to do yourself. I don't think it would be that great of a problem, >however. On SysV; What about placing the program in /etc/inittab? Is /etc/inittab reserved for tty processes only? It seems that you can run anything from there. Also, what is the equivalent of /etc/inittab on a BSD machine? The file /etc/ttytab seems geared to terminal ports. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John H. Merritt # Yesterday I knew nothing, Applied Research Corporation # Today I know that. merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov #
wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) (04/10/90)
In article <1582@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H Merritt) writes:
Also, what is the equivalent of /etc/inittab on a BSD machine?
On "4.3 derivatives", it's /etc/ttys, and, yes, you can run nearly
anything from there. The biggest thing to watch out for is that you
have to make sure that the daemon doesn't fork/exit and detach itself
from the controlling terminal, or else init will keep on restarting
it.
- Bill
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