init - inittab , how to monitor process like on linux ?

[terry tyson]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:45:13 +0200, ADNET Ghislain <gadnet at aqueos.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   The init process can watch daemon and respawn died ones on linux with
> simple configuration. I tried to reproduce this in my FreeBSD server. I
> know this can be done also as the man page says:
> 
>      Init can also be used to keep arbitrary daemons running, automatically
>      restarting them if they die.  In this case, the first field in the
>      ttys(5) file must not reference the path to a configured device
> node and
>      will be passed to the daemon as the final argument on its command line.
>      This is similar to the facility offered in the AT&T System V UNIX
>      /etc/inittab.
> 
> but no matter how i tweak the ttys file  i cannot make it to work.
> 
> Does any FreeeBSD guru can help me make the step from linux complete as
> i cannot find help about this anywhere (the freeBSD admin book do not
> speak of it and google is silent about freeBSD specific ttys "inittab
> like" settings).
> 
> A simple exemple will do the trick, basicaly i need this to keep spamd,
> clamd running (with better and safer way  than using a while 1 loop on
> the shell).
> 
> Best regards,
> Ghislain.

Best to post this to freebsd-questions.
-- 
Terry