On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:26:26AM +0300, Alex Semenyaka wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:41:32PM +0700, Vitaliy Ovsyannikov wrote: > > Hello, freebsd-hackers. > > I've stuck with the unable to make watchdogs for daemons running via > > startup rc-scripts. In linux we can just put the process in the > > inittab. Does FreeBSD contains ability like this? > > You can do it with /etc/ttys. Actually this point is missing by many > FreeBSD administrators, people just think of /etc/ttys in term of > terminals and stuff :) But if youi'll open the man page you would > found the following: > > The first field is normally the name of the terminal special file as it > is found in /dev. However, it can be any arbitrary string when the asso- > ciated command is not related to a tty. > > So you can perfectly run any program there and init will watch or it, just > like in linux. > > -- > Sincerely, > Alex Semenyaka
But, just to be aware, see PR bin/64198. Best regards, Kostik Belousov
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