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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!news.artisoft.com!usenet From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: httpd through cron Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:39:08 -0700 Organization: Me Lines: 40 Message-ID: <31EAE4AC.23B618E2@lambert.org> References: <4s88g3$krt@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4sdo3p$461@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.1.76 i486) James L Fox wrote: ] --------- ] Note: ] I know this group is FreeBSD and not SunOs or CERN but I also ] know that many posters/readers here are running web servers, ] understand cron, and might want to try to do what I'm doing ] with Apache on FreeBSD. ] --------- ] ] Here I am again, the only responder to my own post! ] I included all the dirty details of my problem after reading the ] criticisms here of people who ask questions without sufficient ] background information. Apparently I overdid it! Here's a ] stripped down version of my question... If you need more details, ] please refer back to the article referenced by this one. It needs a /dev/tty, which it can't get if it is run by cron. Instead, you should start it from /etc/rc.local, if you are worried about it following a reboot. If you are worried about it crashing and restarting, you can do that using a "restart" script to watchdog it; something like: #!/bin/sh # while true do echo "starting httpd" > /dev/console httpd& # or whatever... done # not reached Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.