On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:31:44 -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote: >>[...] >> RAM.) Every couple of days I have to restart inetd or other stand-alone >> services (like syslogd, klogd, snmpd, apache.) >>[...] >Ralf, ugly as it is, you could have a cron job restart inetd every five >minutes. I have heard that there is a debian package to ensure that daemons >are always running, I have forgotten the name of course.
Well, this *is* ugly indeed. I'd rather fix the reason, not the symptom. :-) I mean I can't believe that there isn't an "elegant" way to stop *already running* processes from dying(sp?) because of memory shortage. >Perhaps you could check ebay, ubid, etc for used memory? Sorry, it took me a minute to understand what you are suggesting. My first thought was "I've never heard about these programs." :-))) I don't think that's an option. I have a very limited budget and already spent much more than I originally wanted to spend. Also, it's a matter of principle: We're talking about Linux, not Windoze, ok? So why can't the machine just run, even under memory shortages? There's lots of free swap space available, I don't understand why that doesn't suffice to keep the processes running? Before I had that many FTP users on one of the machines, I had the machine running for half a year without a single reboot or me having to restart services. Now sometimes I have to restart inetd twice a day. If I hadn't sshd running which fortunately doesn't die I even had to drive a mile or two to fix the machine. :-( Any other idea? Pointers to "watchdog" programs that restart services? -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^