unversal watchdog

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <200602272312.17567.doconnor at gsoft.com.au>
            "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> writes:
: As to answer the question - I am not aware of any facility for automatically 
: restarting things (unless you can get init to do it via /etc/ttys somehow)
: 
: I don't think it would be too hard to create a shell wrapper script though 
: (kind of annoying I admit)

Actually, putting it in /etc/ttys with a fake device name is the
canonical way to get this functionality.  We do it all the time at
work and it works out well.

Warner