From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 22 00:43:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA07518 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 May 1997 00:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA07508 for ; Thu, 22 May 1997 00:43:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA07095; Thu, 22 May 1997 08:39:56 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199705220739.IAA07095@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: process monitoring tool (like SysV init)? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 May 1997 20:37:45 +0200." <19970521203745.EU46231@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed ; boundary="===_0_Thu_May_22_08:39:44_BST_1997" Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 08:39:56 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is a multipart MIME message. --===_0_Thu_May_22_08:39:44_BST_1997 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > 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. [.....] > -- > 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. ;-) That reminds me. Is anyone interested in a "pkill" command ? It's a shell script (attached 'cos it's not too big) that kills processes by name - so you can say "pkill -HUP named" for example. It would be nice to commit this. -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... --===_0_Thu_May_22_08:39:44_BST_1997 Content-Type: application/x-script Content-Description: pkill Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 IyEgL2Jpbi9zaAojIGtpbGwgdGhlIG5hbWVkIHByb2Nlc3MoZXMpCgpjYXNlICQxIGluIC0q KSBmbGFnPSQxOyBzaGlmdDs7IGVzYWMKClsgJCMgLWVxIDAgXSAmJiB7IGVjaG8gVXNhZ2U6 IHBraWxsIHByb2NuYW1lLi4uOyBleGl0IDE7IH0KCnJ1bm5pbmc9YHBzIGF4b3BpZCxjb21t YW5kIHwKCXNlZCAtZSAncy9eICovLycgXAoJCS1lICdzLF5cKFswLTldKlwpIC4qKFwoW14p XSpcKSkkLFwxIFwyLCcgXAoJCS1lICdzLF5cKFswLTldKlwpIFteIF0qLyxcMSAsJyBcCgkJ LWUgJ3MsXlwoWzAtOV0qXCkgXChbXiBdKlwpIC4qLFwxIFwyLCdgCgppZnM9IiRJRlMiCklG Uz0KZm9yIGYKZG8KCXBpZD1gZWNobyAkcnVubmluZyB8IHNlZCAtbiAiLyAkZiQvIHMvIC4q Ly9wImAKCVsgLXogIiRwaWQiIF0gJiYgZWNobyAiJGY6IE5vIHN1Y2ggcHJvY2Vzcy4iID4m MiB8fCBwaWRzPSIkcGlkcyAkcGlkIgpkb25lClsgLW4gIiRwaWRzIiBdICYmIHsKCUlGUz0i JGlmcyIKCXBpZHM9ImBlY2hvICRwaWRzYCIKCWVjaG8ga2lsbCAkZmxhZyAkcGlkcwoJa2ls bCAkZmxhZyAkcGlkcwp9Cg== --===_0_Thu_May_22_08:39:44_BST_1997--