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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends.
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:13:44
Message-Id: 21d1e743-d11c-20cb-b56f-fcbf616c736d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: monit and friends. by Alan McKinnon
1 On 10/16/2017 11:50 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 >
3 > What I need here is a small app that will be a constrained,
4 > single-purpose watchdog. If a daemon fails, the watchdog attempts 3
5 > restarts to get it going, and records the fact it did it (that goes into
6 > the big monitoring system as a reportable fact). If the restart fails,
7 > then a human needs to attend to it as it is seriously or beyond the
8 > scope of a watchdog.
9 >
10
11 Can the daemon be run in the foreground?
12
13 start-app; start-app; start-app; /usr/local/bin/page-alan