larry@mitra.mitra.com (Larry Williamson) (04/10/91)
I have need of a system that can be used to startup a bunch of programs. This system should be able to restart any process that has died, or if desired, flag the death (ie. via syslog()). The bunch of programs to control should be obtained from an ascii file. All in all, something similiar to the /etc/init & /etc/inittab on System V machines. There is an example of something similiar in 'the camel book'. I will use that as a start, but am interested in something more complete if it is available. I suppose it does not *have* to be a perl solution, but... :-) Thanks. -Larry
rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) (04/12/91)
In article <LARRY.91Apr10154921@mitra.mitra.com> larry@mitra.mitra.com (Larry Williamson) writes: >I have need of a system that can be used to startup a bunch of >programs. This system should be able to restart any process that has >died, or if desired, flag the death (ie. via syslog()). The bunch of >programs to control should be obtained from an ascii file. Have a table of commands you want to run. For each entry, fork and record the command in an associative array indexed by the child's pid. Then wait for a child to die. When it does, restart that entry and record the new pid, or syslog it if it was a one time thing. >All in all, something similiar to the /etc/init & /etc/inittab on >System V machines. Indeed. With a bit of hacking you can create the internal table from inittab itself. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane