I have been know to run out of processes on a server. So... if your daemon is spawning other processes and dies because "No more processes." Then I'd suggest using a cron-jobbed script that checks to see if your daemon is alive and running at regular intervals, and if it isn't to restart it again.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Felix Geerinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: proper way to start daemon > > > on Thu, 16 May 2002 19:16:58 GMT, Matt Simonsen wrote: > > > I have a script to monitor servers which is basically an infinate > > loop that sleeps and runs again. I start from a ssh session by the > > command: > > > > ssh -f $server "~/script &" > > > > It seems to be dieing on some of our busier servers. > > I'm really not into this myself, but maybe > > perldoc -q daemon > How do I fork a daemon process? > > makes sense to you? > > -- > felix > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]