From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 01:13:00 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 951F837B401 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 01:13:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84AAF43F93 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 01:12:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from landgren.net (81-80-147-206.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F089FADFB; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:12:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3E8957DC.20502@landgren.net> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:11:56 +0200 From: David Landgren Organization: A thousand golden eyes are watching User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lasse Laursen References: <05b001c2f752$b9e189e0$6501a8c0@animal> In-Reply-To: <05b001c2f752$b9e189e0$6501a8c0@animal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software Watchdog? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:13:00 -0000 Lasse Laursen wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any apps. like 'watchdog' - > http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/watchdog.html - for FreeBSD? > > I have been searching the ports tree and freshmeat but was unable to locate > anything usefull. What are you trying to do? Dan Bernstein's daemontools will look after any number of daemons and make sure that they keep running correctly. You have to buy into djb's mindset though. Some people hate the way it creates directories in / by default. More info can be found at http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html David