Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:26:11 -0500 From: terry tyson <beebum@gmail.com> To: ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@aqueos.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: init - inittab , how to monitor process like on linux ? Message-ID: <dad842a90410252026662439e4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <417DBA39.1060301@aqueos.com> References: <417DBA39.1060301@aqueos.com>
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:45:13 +0200, ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@aqueos.com> wrote: > 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. Best to post this to freebsd-questions. -- Terry
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