unversal watchdog

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 27 February 2006 21:11, Vitaliy Ovsyannikov wrote:
>   I've stuck with the unable to make watchdogs for daemons running via
> startup rc-scripts. In linux we can just put the process in the
> inittab. Does FreeBSD contains ability like this?

Create a script for /etc/rc.d (or /usr/local/etc/rc.d) - with a suitable entry 
in rc.conf it will be started at boot.

man rc.subr plus a look through /etc/rc.d should get you started :)

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