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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!news.sol.net!solaria.sol.net!not-for-mail From: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Oh those funny hacks (Re: named running out of memory) Date: 3 Dec 1995 12:43:59 -0600 Organization: sol.net Network Services - Solaria Public Access UNIX Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <49sr5f$j38@solaria.sol.net> References: <487p7f$7ia@ionews.io.org> <488pc7$2qq@hustle.rahul.net> <di16c8.5z2@inka.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: solaria.sol.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1588 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:8522 In comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains article <di16c8.5z2@inka.de>, olaf@tapac.inka.de (Olaf Titz) wrote: :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. Impossible, no, ridiculous, yes. Start it out of inittab/ttys/etc. If init dies, you're really in trouble anyways. You get the advantage that it is restarted right away, and uses less CPU to manage the trick. Also no ugly "watchdog" processes lying around that weren't already there. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847