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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:42:45 +1000
From:      "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm@transactionware.com>
To:        "'Johan Brodin'" <d98jobro@dtek.chalmers.se>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: High Avaliability Processes
Message-ID:  <000a01c231d9$7bc668e0$fc5807ca@mosm1>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10207221007580.24206-100000@licia.dtek.chalmers.se>

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Johan Brodin wrote:
> I'm new to this list and I want to ask a rather simple question. Does
> FreeBSD contain a program (preferably a kernel process) that 
> can see if
> another process (user defined) terminates and then restart 
> this process?
> Or will I have to use an "external" program for this?

As well as init/ttys, look at supervise from Dan Bernstein's daemontools
package:

	http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

There are other benefits like reliably sending signals to processes by
name, log file management and a bunch of other useful, well designed
stuff.

Jan Mikkelsen



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