From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 21:22:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445C816A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:22:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from db@traceroute.dk) Received: from cicero1.cybercity.dk (cicero1.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD97F43D49 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:22:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from db@traceroute.dk) Received: from user3.cybercity.dk (user3.cybercity.dk [212.242.41.36]) by cicero1.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A77A63EEEF; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:22:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (port132.ds1-arsy.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.239.73]) by user3.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F62293D5B; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:22:23 +0100 (CET) From: db To: corwin@aeternal.net, questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:23:18 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200601312202.03556.db@traceroute.dk> <43DFD21C.2000304@aeternal.net> In-Reply-To: <43DFD21C.2000304@aeternal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601312223.18788.db@traceroute.dk> Cc: Subject: Re: Program for restarting stopped/crashed daemons X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:22:30 -0000 On Tuesday 31 January 2006 21:09, Martin Hudec wrote: > > I've been looking for a program to restart apache, postfix and my other > > server daemons when they stop/crash, but couldn't find a good one. I've > > read the sourcecode for sysutils/monit and sysutils/monitord but they > > seem to need /proc and insist on poll instead of using kqueue(2) and > > kevent(2). So before I start coding my own, can someone recommend a port > > or tell me why kevent(2) shouldn't be used for this? > > And what is exactly wrong with /proc running? I'm not using it on my 6.0 servers. br db