From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 27 22:19:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (adsl-66.218.45.239.dslextreme.com [66.218.45.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3C0737B403 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 22:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8816 invoked by uid 1000); 28 May 2002 05:19:56 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:19:34 -0700 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to automagically restart net/pptpclient? Message-ID: <20020528051956.GE5934@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020528045812.0F4F93F35@bast.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020528045812.0F4F93F35@bast.unixathome.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:57:52AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > I have installed net/pptpclient (1.0.3). About 5 times a week, it dies > and must be restarted. Does anyone have a script which checks and > restarts it if it has died? What perfect timing. Please see my responses to the ``non-root /var/run files'' thread on this list. Another case which shows we need some kind of service control manager. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Santa Clara, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ jos@catnook.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message