From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 3:21:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F1737B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 03:21:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eALBL9f21403; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:21:09 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:21:08 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: Bart Subject: Re: ping OK, daemons dead ? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian william wolter Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21-Nov-00 Bart wrote: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, brian william wolter wrote: > >> > 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. > > Well, I can not reach the console at this moment (it's a machine > located somewhere else) but the weird part is that I *can* connect > (using telnet) but no "login:" appears: > > acid2:/1/home/skin$ telnet mymachine.nl > Trying 212.104.204.x... > Connected to mymachine.nl. > Escape character is '^]'. > > So the daemon ain't dead... Do you have some kind of firewall involved? I got the same telnet response when I had misconfigured my wall. Dunno of the daemons would die of it though... /Micke > With regards, > Bart Pustjens > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message