Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:16:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Patrik_=C5str=F6m?= <patrik.astrom@tv3.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to use instead of inittab Message-ID: <19990126161636.P66239@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3CB11AC84AFD40D2118FD700805FA6FE4C4CC924=40STK-MAIL=3E?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3B_from_Patrik_=C5str=F6m_on_Tue=2C_Jan_19=2C_1999_at_11?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?:51:35AM_%2B0100?= References: <B11AC84AFD40D2118FD700805FA6FE4C4CC924@STK-MAIL>
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On Tuesday, 19 January 1999 at 11:51:35 +0100, Patrik Åström wrote: > On den 19 januari 1999 11:41, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: >> On Tuesday, 19 January 1999 at 11:20:38 +0100, Patrik Åström wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> FreeBSD dont have a inittab like HP-UX, Solaris, Linux etc... >>> >>> Is there anything I can use instead ?, >> >> Yes. >> >>> or do I need to write a script that runs from cron and looks for any >>> proccess that have died and then restart them. >> >> I suppose it depends on what you want to do. Take a look at ttys(5). >> If that doesn't answer your question, state it. > > IM not running any kind of terminal software, this is more a generic > question how to solve the problem with applications that is dying. I would > like to have these application restarted as soon as possible after they die. > > e.g. lets say I have some FreeBSD boxes that does very little and I would > like to donate the spare CPU cycles to the distributed.net project, these > boxes is almost never attended to and it would be a shame if the rc5des > application stopped running and I there for not did contribute all the spare > CPU cycles I would like it to. > > Is there some sort of daemon I could install that would do this thing > instead of a inittab ? No, in this case you'd have to do something yourself. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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