From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 02:45:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E1516A4CF for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:45:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from core0.adn-services.com (core0.adn-services.com [82.112.100.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED59D43D2F for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:45:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gadnet@aqueos.com) Received: from [10.27.27.27] (lns-th2-4f-81-56-179-201.adsl.proxad.net [81.56.179.201]) (authenticated bits=0)i9Q2jD85042255; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:45:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <417DBA39.1060301@aqueos.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:45:13 +0200 From: ADNET Ghislain Organization: AQUEOS User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Thunderbird/0.7.3 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75.1, clamav-milter version 0.75c on core0.adn-services.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: init - inittab , how to monitor process like on linux ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:45:16 -0000 Hi, The init process can watch daemon and respawn died ones on linux with simple configuration. I tried to reproduce this in my FreeBSD server. I know this can be done also as the man page says: Init can also be used to keep arbitrary daemons running, automatically restarting them if they die. In this case, the first field in the ttys(5) file must not reference the path to a configured device node and will be passed to the daemon as the final argument on its command line. This is similar to the facility offered in the AT&T System V UNIX /etc/inittab. but no matter how i tweak the ttys file i cannot make it to work. Does any FreeeBSD guru can help me make the step from linux complete as i cannot find help about this anywhere (the freeBSD admin book do not speak of it and google is silent about freeBSD specific ttys "inittab like" settings). A simple exemple will do the trick, basicaly i need this to keep spamd, clamd running (with better and safer way than using a while 1 loop on the shell). Best regards, Ghislain.