Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: John Barton <jbarton@××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SSH, updates and serial port switches
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:26:39
Message-Id: 4193CAF4.7060305@technicalworks.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] SSH, updates and serial port switches by Robert Sanders
1 >
2 >> linked to SSH terminating the connection after running some updates.
3 >> So, I wanted to get some advice on how you all handle keeping control
4 >> of your remote Gentoo servers, and for instance how to keep SSH
5 >> running at all costs.
6 >
7 There is a program out there that handles this very well, called monit
8 (http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/)
9 You can run this program out of /etc/inittab so that it is always
10 running, and it will make sure that your ssh daemon gets restarted if
11 something happens. I run monit on every server I have in production.
12 Hope this helps..
13 -John
14
15 John Barton
16 jbarton@××××××××××××××.net

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Re: [gentoo-server] SSH, updates and serial port switches Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>