Will Prater wrote: > > 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?
>From Life with Qmail: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/qmailctl-script-dt70 And check out this: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#start-qmail Particularly section 2.8.2.2, "The supervise scripts". -- 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 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
