Re: init - inittab , how to monitor process like on linux ?

From: terry tyson (beebum_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/26/04

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To: ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@aqueos.com>

    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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