On 956589098 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
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>The only real advantage of a metadaemon is it lets you automatically
>restart daemons that crash, but in my opinion, that's a crock. You
>should make sure the daemons don't crash in the first place. Sure
>enough, under NetBSD and similar systems, it is very rare to see
>daemons crash, but under AIX, it happened all the time...

The other problem is that it (and all other watchdog schemes based
on the process running) give a false sense of security, as sometimes
daemons don't crash, they just stop responding.

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