On 2020-01-27 19:13, Patrick Kristiansen wrote: > Is there something like the FreeBSD daemon(8) command for OpenBSD, which > can run a process in the background and restart it if it crashes?
Of course init does this for getty but as others have pointed out, restarting daemons listening to the network during unexpected occurrences, like the kernel killing it during exploitation is a terrible default. I hear it in GoLang all the time and it irks me. I am against panic handling in Go generally but perhaps there will be some occasion where it may be of some use for semi-unexpected issues (perhaps hw redundancy, though generally that is better handled by having redundant complete systems). You can always use monit from pkg/ports for anything you have decided is an exception but it is good that OpenBSD makes people stop and think and maybe fix first.
