Re: "rcutil" - a script to monitor status of daemons started in rc.d

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:56:09AM -0500, Ed Ravin wrote:
> Attached is a script that checks to see what daemons in rc.d have
> rcvar=YES, and then runs "/etc/rc.d/XXXX status" to see if the daemon
> is running.  I use this to "sanity check" a box, like after it's run
> out of swap and has randomly killed who-knows-what.  It can also be run
> out of cron or snmpd to test whether all the configured daemons on a box
> are running.
> 
> Since the original version was released in 2005, it's been updated to
> do some extra parsing for cases where the rcvar name in the script is
> not the same as the filename (like "nfs_server" in rc.d/nfsd).
> 
> The careful consistency and code re-use of the NetBSD rc.d system is
> what makes this utility possible.  

Did you really intend to license this script under the GPL (without
specifying a particular version, but that's beside the point)?  If it
were under a BSD compatible license, I think it's likely we'd just
ship it with NetBSD.

Thor