Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:48:39 -0800 From: Will Prater <will@mercurycloud.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: daemon monitoring Message-ID: <58BF3BE2-1ED0-11D8-B5C4-000A95DBBE34@mercurycloud.net> In-Reply-To: <bpts4o$f5s$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <3B75ECFD-1DE6-11D8-A141-000A95DBBE34@mercurycloud.net> <bpts4o$f5s$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Nov 24, 2003, at 1:10 PM, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Will Prater wrote: > >> List, >> >> What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been >> loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there >> any others that you reccomend? >> >> If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am >> primarily trying to keep my mail system online: postfix, cyrus, >> saslauthd, mysql, and spamassassin. > > I'm particularly fond of daemontools/supervise, actually. You've got to > jump through some hoops to get it working (process must run in > foreground, > process must start first time, etc..), but it's very reliable and the > qmail style qmailctl script can be adapted to any configuration with > minimal > work to make an excellent control script. Yes, it looks promising. I have it working for a few of my processes. I was looking to something similar to Mac OS X Servers watchdog. This is much better. I get weird errors when I am trying to get saslauthd since I have to use fghack to get it going. Can you send me the qmailctl script or some examples that you have with some daemons on your system? Thanks > -- > Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator > WingNET Internet Services, > P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 > 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) > http://www.wingnet.net > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > --will
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