On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:38:42 -0600
> > 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 agree. There is monit in ports which can notify you to investigate or work offline but I configured it not to restart the daemons after past commentry on this list. A script or cron job can do similar very easily too. Although monit does provide some nice checks I rarely look at it these days. I use external tcp/html etc. functionality tests. I don't use ping as that is really an alive test. There are plenty of hosting companies that can do external monitoring if you only have a single server too. OpenBSD also has plenty of redundancy service failover (CARP, relayd etc.) as do service providers. So one/more can take over whilst the failed are audited.
