how to run a program as a daemon

[chael at southgate.ph.inter.net]

I had the same problem once, but with httpd. I use the restartWrapper - A
"very" nice perl script written by Mike McCauley, dunno his website though.
Maybe you can google.


> David Banning wrote:
> > I am running tmda-ofmipd for my smtp server and occasionally
> > it dies. I wonder how I could set it up to run so that if it
> > dies for some reason, it will start up again. Right now, it
> > starts in my rc.local like so;
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/tmda-ofmipd  -R imap://localhost -u tofmipd
>
> Look at DJB's daemontools, perhaps.  But the general idea is that you have
a
> monitor script which looks like:
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> while : ; do
>     /usr/local/bin/tmda-ofmipd  -R imap://localhost -u tofmipd
>     echo "TMDA daemon died!  Restarting in 5 seconds..."
>     sleep 5
> done
>
> -- 
> -Chuck
>
>
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