Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 02:11:39 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Will Prater <lists-wp@mercurycloud.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daemon monitoring Message-ID: <20031124011139.GA60027@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <98017B2C-1E17-11D8-A141-000A95DBBE34@mercurycloud.net> References: <3B75ECFD-1DE6-11D8-A141-000A95DBBE34@mercurycloud.net> <20031123215725.GC557@dds.nl> <98017B2C-1E17-11D8-A141-000A95DBBE34@mercurycloud.net>
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Dear Will, I've moved you text to the buttom so its more readable for other. On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:57 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > >>List, > >> > >>What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been > >>loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there > >>any others that you reccomend? > >> > >>If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am > >>primarily trying to keep my mail system online: postfix, cyrus, > >>saslauthd, mysql, and spamassassin. > > > >I would advise Nagios. > > Sorry, I mispoke. I will be using Nagios to monitor, but I need to make > sure they will restart if there is an error. Will nagios do this as > well? > I don't *think* so. You could write a sh script (or any other) that does this. It could contain this line: result=px aux | grep SomeDaemon | wc -l If the result is zero than SomeDaemon is not running. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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