From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 21 11:51:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA27546 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA27527 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA20506 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 21 May 1997 20:50:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA01056; Wed, 21 May 1997 20:37:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970521203745.EU46231@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:37:45 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: process monitoring tool (like SysV init)? References: <9705210854.AA02911@poveri.tekla.fi> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9705210854.AA02911@poveri.tekla.fi>; from Sakari Jalovaara on May 21, 1997 11:54:40 +0300 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Sakari Jalovaara wrote: > It struck me as a rather nice idea. No more "ps | grep sendmail ... > kill ... sendmail -bd -q1h" - just do "nanny restart sendmail". All `conforming' daemons leave their PID in /var/run/.pid. Thus, restart.sh: #!/bin/sh if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then echo "usage: $0 " >&2 exit 64 fi if [ -f /var/run/$1.pid ] ; then # the head -1 is only needed for sendmail, but doesn't hurt pid=$(head -1 /var/run/$1.pid) if [ "X$pid" != X ] ; then echo "Sending SIGHUP to PID $pid..." kill -HUP $pid exit $? fi fi echo "/var/run/$1.pid doesn't exist or is empty" >&1 exit 72 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)