From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 13:10:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93FC16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:10:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 908F243F3F for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AONyt-0001BK-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:10:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AONyr-0001BC-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:10:49 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AONyr-0004IA-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:10:49 +0100 From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:10:48 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <3B75ECFD-1DE6-11D8-A141-000A95DBBE34@mercurycloud.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: daemon monitoring X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 21:10:55 -0000 Will Prater wrote: > List, > > What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been > loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there > any others that you reccomend? > > If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am > primarily trying to keep my mail system online: postfix, cyrus, > saslauthd, mysql, and spamassassin. I'm particularly fond of daemontools/supervise, actually. You've got to jump through some hoops to get it working (process must run in foreground, process must start first time, etc..), but it's very reliable and the qmail style qmailctl script can be adapted to any configuration with minimal work to make an excellent control script. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net