On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at > | a time, gets dozens of "unexpected signal" (source unknown) > | and gives up the ghost. > | > | questions: > | 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active > | daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some > | utility already exists for this? or /proc/something? > | or `ps ax`? > > restartd.
hmm. this sounds promising... $ apt-cache search restart | sort daemontools-installer - Installer package for building daemontools binary package firestarter - gtk program for managing and observing your firewall. freefont - Freeware font selection for X11 gentoo - A fully GUI configurable X file manager using GTK+ jesred - A redirector for Squid oss-preserve - Program to save/restore OSS mixer settings run - Watch programs and restart them if they die scsiadd - Add or remove SCSI devices by rescanning the bus. snmptrapfmt - A configurable snmp trap handler daemon for snmpd. xpacman - Basic Pacman zope-zshell - Zshell present a command line interface to zope xpacman? not quite what i had in mind. wokka wokka. :) $ apt-cache search restartd | sort $ dpkg -S restart debhelper: /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-init-norestart-invoke debhelper: /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/prerm-init-norestart debhelper: /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/prerm-init-norestart-invoke debhelper: /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-init-norestart $ dpkg -S restartd dpkg: *restartd* not found. at http://backports.org, i search for "restartd" and get Sorry, no packages found. :( -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #21 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking to configure your Debian NETWORK SETTINGS? Look at the file /etc/network/interfaces (try "man interfaces" for more info). Then "ifup -a" to reload your settings, and "ifconfig" to display them. (Also check out "apt-get install ipmasq"!) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]