On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 20:00, Rod Haper wrote: > Richard Worwood wrote: > > I'm have a problem with one of my servers at the moment where services > > keep stopping and I would like to setup some kind of watchdog process to > > keep this in check, notify me when it happens and restart them. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this? > > > > Thanks > > > > Richard > > > > > Put them in your '/etc/inittab' with the "respawn" action and let init > run them when your server boots. If they die, init will restart them. > See the man pages for 'init' and 'inittab'. Which processes are failing? What versions of these services are you using? Setting up scripts or methods to restart the processes is a stop gap at best. Resolving the problem of why the are stopping in the first place is the real solution. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Micro Credo: Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift.
