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From: mury@goldengate.net (Mury)
Subject: Processes that die (inetd)
Message-ID: <61c7cc$142813.32f@NEWS>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 03:47:24 GMT
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My users have been unable to get pop mail, and log in to the shell.  I
found that inetd had died.  Is there a known reason why this happens?

Does anyone have a script that cron executes that checks common
daemons to make sure they are still breathing, and restart them if
they've quit?