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You can try bigsister for some of this:
http://bigsister.graeff.com./

But coding to check apache is trivial.  I have rolled my own apache monitor 
as the daemon doesn't die but will stop responding at times.

         -Derek


At 04:02 PM 1/31/2006, db wrote:
>Hi all
>
>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?
>
>Best regards
>db
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