Michael Torrie wrote: > Is there any utility program that can wrap a daemon running in an init > script on RHEL 5 that can auto-restart the actual daemon process when it > crashes? Obviously a crashing daemon isn't desirable, but sometimes it > happens and in this case a restart is sufficient and desired. I'd like > to still work with a script from /etc/init.d, though, so the standard > runtime logic can apply to it. Does anyone have a good solution? I > thought about writing a little python program to fork the daemon child > (gotta love it!) and monitor it for SIGTERM or SIGKILL and restart it. > The init.d script could treat the python program as the daemon itself. > If the python script got a kill signal it would pass it on to the child > and then exit. The changes of the python program dying are much smaller > than the daemon I'm trying to respawn.
Supervisor. http://supervisord.org/ I like it, but not just because it's Python. ;-) It really has all the features listed on the home page. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
