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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!homer.alpha.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!ub!ns1.potsdam.edu!news.potsdam.edu!nelson From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: named running out of memory and aborting? Date: 15 Nov 1995 15:20:57 GMT Organization: Crynwr Software Lines: 23 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <NELSON.95Nov15102057@crynwr.crynwr.com> References: <487p7f$7ia@ionews.io.org> <488pc7$2qq@hustle.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.203.178.14 In-reply-to: Rahul Dhesi's message of 14 Nov 1995 00:54:31 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1476 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:8383 In article <488pc7$2qq@hustle.rahul.net> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> writes: 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. Impossible? No, you just do a watchdog program. Every ten minutes you run the following program: #! /bin/sh kill `cat /etc/watchdog.pid` echo $$ >/etc/watchdog.pid sleep 610 killall -9 crond /usr/sbin/crond >/dev/null 2>&1 If this is rocket science, then rocket science is getting easier --lwall. -- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | PGP ok 11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | 'tis better not to choose: Potsdam, NY 13676 | Abortion is murder; forced childbirth is slavery.