From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 30 14:53:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from brain.mics.net (brain.mics.net [209.41.216.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154CD37B408 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by brain.mics.net (Postfix, from userid 150) id 46F6417BE7; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:53:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by brain.mics.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3048315D08; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:53:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:53:08 -0500 (EST) From: David Scheidt To: Jacco Cc: Frank Laszlo , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Start scripts as "deamons" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Jacco wrote: > Hi Frank, > > | Are you talking about crontab? or maybe /usr/local/etc/rc.d > | either way, crontab will allow you to run scripts and make sure they keep > | running at specified times, and the fold i specified is the folder to put > | scripts in that you wish to have start when you boot. > > Unfortunately I realy mean a inittab: > > This means that the script always runs when the machine is up and not at a > defined time (crontab). You can kill it with a "killall -HUP processname" > and it comes right back up and running again..... (on my RedHat 6.2 machine > witch is a bad one and has to be replaced by FreeBSD). > I'm looking for a similar option in Freebsd. take a look at d.j. bernstein's daemontools: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html davdi o > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message