Install the daemontools package from Dan Bernstein. http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html They offer an excellent way to make sure processes never die. -----Original Message----- From: Nate Carlson [mailto:natecars at real-time.com] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:33 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] best way to chk if named is running and restart if not On Thu, 31 May 2001, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > RedHat 6.1 server. Running as DNS server. Named stops randomly. > > > > What is the best way to chk if named is running and to restart named if it > > is stopped? > > I've been considering writing a script to do this... I figure you could > just take advantage of sysv init, go through /etc/init.d/, run each > script with 'status', if its running good, if its dead start it... > > But Debian apparently doesn't implement 'status'. Blah. And seems to me, > the ultimate thing would be to run everything from init, since it > already has logic for keeping processes running, without flooding the > system with spawns... or just use netsaint to check it, and rig up an external script to have it start. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list