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Date:      Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:11:56 +0200
From:      David Landgren <david@landgren.net>
To:        Lasse Laursen <laursen@netgroup.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Software Watchdog?
Message-ID:  <3E8957DC.20502@landgren.net>
In-Reply-To: <05b001c2f752$b9e189e0$6501a8c0@animal>
References:  <05b001c2f752$b9e189e0$6501a8c0@animal>

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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



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