> Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it doesn't seem like there's a facility for > automatically restarting daemons after a crash or similar. Is the idea > just that daemons should be designed to not crash?
Yes. Fail closed. It is the only secure thing to do. > I'm familiar with 3rd party tools like daemontools and such that > provide these facilities, but I can't find anything on this for native > OBSD services. You can build anything yourself, but we're not going to provide such a mechanism. If software has a bug, you want to fix it. You don't want to keep running it. Yes, I get it many people are addicted to the service industry model of running crap and getting the job done. Lots of stories in the news about that all the time...
