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From: merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H Merritt)
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Subject: Re: Daemon Monitoring Daemon
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Date: 9 Apr 90 16:42:47 GMT
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In article <76@robecdc.UUCP> ghost@robecdc.UUCP (William.A.Sneed) writes:
>
>Watcher would get you half the way there. It will do the monitoring based
>on a list (ASCII file) of daemons. The remainder (auto restart) you would
>have to do yourself. I don't think it would be that great of a problem,
>however.
On SysV;  What about placing the program in /etc/inittab?  Is
          /etc/inittab reserved for tty processes only?  It seems
          that you can run anything from there.

Also, what is the equivalent of /etc/inittab on a BSD machine?
          The file /etc/ttytab seems geared to terminal ports.


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