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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2004 01:52:37 +1100
From:      Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@myrealbox.com>
To:        "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Daemon Monitor
Message-ID:  <20040209015237.1a9b288c.ggop@myrealbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040208141313.GB19831@alzatex.com>
References:  <20040208141313.GB19831@alzatex.com>

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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 06:13:13 -0800
"Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> wrote:

> Is there a good program that can monitor a daemon and take an
> appropriate action if the daemon dies?  I am having trouble with
> ClamAV dying in certain circumstances, but somewhat rare.  I would
> like for when it dies, to either restart it or copy a mail config file
> for exim over the default and signal Exim which would then disable
> exim from using clamav so the mail will still come through.  Currently
> we have it disabled until the problem is fixed, but some users are
> still not heeding the warnings and are infecting themselves with the
> MyDoom virus which ClamAV was previously blocking.

/usr/ports/sysutils/daemontools
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

hope that helps.
Gautam



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