[MTOS-dev] Daemonizing a process?

[Mark Paschal]

Byrne Reese wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can bootstrap publish queue with a daemon monitoring
> service or tool? Doesn't linux have some way that I can allow for the
> process to be restarted if for some reason it dies?

I've heard that D.J. Bernstein's daemontools is good (and bad) for 
managing long running processes:

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Its FAQ reminds me that init(8), Keeper of the Runlevels, is the 
regular UNIX way. Apparently processes in inittab can be set to be 
restarted when they die, which I did not know.


Mark Paschal
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