Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:24:42 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: process monitoring tool (like SysV init)? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970522092358.423M-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199705220739.IAA07095@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, 22 May 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > > 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/<name>.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. Don't we already have killall in the base system? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891
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