Matt:Hmmm... Matt, this is exactly what init is designed to do, it will respawn any daemon that stops running, and reruns it automatically. Some people use something called daemon tools, or something called supervisor, all which work just fine. I think init does a great job of this also assuming the daemon is well behaved.
# CLAMD
cl:2345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/clamd
^^^^^^^ The magic is the respawn keyword.
A demostration is in order:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11250]# ps -aef |grep clam
root 2626 1 0 Feb07 ? 00:00:04 /usr/local/sbin/clamd
^^^^ note this number
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11250]# kill -9 2626
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11250]# ps -aef |grep clam
root 11248 1 2 14:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/clamd
^^^^^ woo hoo!
QED.
HFC
Matt Kettler wrote:
Henry F. Camacho Jr wrote:Don: Another way to do this is to do it during init.Yes, but that doesn't solve his problem. It's also probably what Don is doing right now. Dons problem is spamd crashing and dying. He's looking for a mechanism to ensure it gets restarted even if it crashes. init won't do that, it will just ensure that spamd starts as the system boots.
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