unversal watchdog

[Kostik Belousov]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:26:26AM +0300, Alex Semenyaka wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:41:32PM +0700, Vitaliy Ovsyannikov wrote:
> > Hello, freebsd-hackers.
> >   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?
> 
> You can do it with /etc/ttys. Actually this point is missing by many
> FreeBSD administrators, people just think of /etc/ttys in term of
> terminals and stuff :) But if youi'll open the man page you would
> found the following:
> 
>      The first field is normally the name of the terminal special file as it
>      is found in /dev.  However, it can be any arbitrary string when the asso-
>      ciated command is not related to a tty.
> 
> So you can perfectly run any program there and init will watch or it, just
> like in linux.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Alex Semenyaka

But, just to be aware, see PR bin/64198.

Best regards,
Kostik Belousov
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