From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 2: 1:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thesadmachine.org (dsl254-008-078-sea1.dsl-isp.net [216.254.8.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E023537B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 02:01:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3135 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Nov 2000 10:11:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Nov 2000 10:11:13 -0000 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 04:11:13 -0600 (CST) From: brian william wolter To: Bart Cc: Subject: Re: ping OK, daemons dead ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > of situations; is it possible to use a script/program > which reboots the machine after 12 hours of no > activity of some kind of daemon (or login). you'd probibly be better off writing a script that will just restart the daemons that are dying on you, that way you won't have the downtime that will result from actually rebooting. you can just have the script check to see if the processes are still running and restart them if they are not. then just put it in the crontabs to execute every so often. peace, brian t h e S a d M a c h i n e . o r g To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message