Keeping a daemon running?

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, James McDonald wrote:

> On 13/01/10 06:36, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > I have servers with a couple of daemons that regularly seem to silently
> > die off. It would be great to have some tool that would detect this
> > fault condition and dutifully restart them. I know such things exist,
> > was wondering if anyone here could recommend something that does this?
> monit
> 
> http://mmonit.com/monit/

   Or you can launch the daemon from within /etc/inittab and set it to 
"respawn".  Like this:

# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
# xdm is now a separate service
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon



   Enjoy!
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          Ypsilanti, Michigan

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