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From: olaf@tapac.inka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Oh those funny hacks (Re: named running out of memory)
Date: 14 Nov 1995 11:24:08 GMT
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> wrote:
> BTW, I have a similar cron job that restarts cron if it dies. How this
> is done is proprietary information, because many people will tell you
> it's impossible. I will let you guess whether I'm joking or not.
Of course not. How about this one?
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
sleep 86400
kill -0 `cat /var/run/crond.pid` 2>/dev/null || /usr/sbin/crond
done
Another two processes wasted because some other one is broken. Sigh. :-)
olaf
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