From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 20 20:37:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA14263 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 20:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (ppp-206-170-32-206.snfc21.pacbell.net [206.170.32.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA14256 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 20:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shockwave.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA13982; Tue, 20 May 1997 20:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705210336.UAA13982@precipice.shockwave.com> To: stesin@gu.net cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: process monitoring tool (like SysV init)? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 May 1997 22:04:29 +0300." Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 20:36:52 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk the bsd init program is really tied too closely to ttys for it to be anything other than a kludge (imho). I was thinking of just porting the linux init code over to run as a subsidiary daemon until I read the code (barf). That makes me think I'll just write my own, but I wanted to see if someone else had done a good process monitor first. From: Andrew Stesin Subject: Re: process monitoring tool (like SysV init)? On Tue, 20 May 1997, Paul Traina wrote: > If one of the programs dies, it should restart it. If it dies too quickly, > it should back-off and log some error messages, ... ... and also monitors UPS status and is aware of POWER_FAIL signal? > This looks and feels a lot like a lobotomized system 5 init program. > > Before I actually whack one out -- has anyone seen source code for > something that has basicly these kinds of features already done for > BSD? init itself? > Paul > Best regards, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE