Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 20:10:29 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Q. How to script a self checking starting rc.d script Message-ID: <20170412201029.48428d98b592b9f963b1423d@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <740265b61597d745421e95e190c659d8.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <740265b61597d745421e95e190c659d8.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:25:36 -0400 "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > We are moving from RHEL/CentOS Linux to FreeBSD. On one of our Linux > boxes we currently have an ssh pipe to a remote imap service. This is > a straight-forward ssh tunnel. In the past there have been > circumstances where this connection has failed. In order to > automatically re-establish the pipe I wrote an 'upstart' job to set up > the pipe and automatically restart after a stoppage. > > How is this sort of thing handled in FreeBSD? Through cron monitoring? For this particular job I would suggest using autossh started in rc.local or with a minimal rc script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which you'd have to write - personally I'd go with rc.local. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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