Frank,

>This looks, well, not nice, but working and better than no precautions
>the way I went. As I'm not root on the server, I can't do the inittab
>stuff, but I can do cronjobs. And if crond dies, some other people
>will shout before me...

You may want to consider using daemontools:
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Starting/stopping/controlling the daemon doesn't require that you fiddle
with inittab, init.d files, etc. As such, it is portable across all flavors
of Unix/Linux. Also, once root installs daemontools for you, you don't need
root privileges to control the daemon.

I've used daemontools to control AOLserver for years now, and it's
incredibly robust.

If you're using Debian or FreeBSD, there is a Debian package for this on
the "mothership". I don't know about RPM versions, but I imagine they
exist. Anyway, it's pretty simple to make install from source.

...Edmund.


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