Subject: Re: Starting jobs from init
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: Paul Newhouse <newhouse@rockhead.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/29/2002 13:22:19
> hi,
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:00:45PM -0800, Paul Newhouse wrote:
> > I guess I didn't ask this quite right, let me try again. Using sshd
> > as an example;
> >
> > If the sshd process, which was started by the /etc/rc.d/sshd
> > script, were to die, does the current rc.d scheme automatically
> > call the /etc/rc.d/sshd script with "start" or "restart"? Or must
> > that be handled by some user (sysadmin/owner/...) supplied
> > scripting?
> >
> > I find references to "restart", but didn't notice anything that
> > suggested the rc scheme would/could automatically do this.
>
> 'restart' target is for manually restarting running service.
Yeah, the manual command line capability was made pretty clear.
> you want to use pkgsrc/sysutils/daemontools package or something
> similar.
AH!! Might just be what I was looking for.
Thanks again,
Paul
> regards,
>
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