Q. How to script a self checking starting rc.d script

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:25:36 -0400
"James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> We are moving from RHEL/CentOS Linux to FreeBSD.   On one of our Linux
> boxes we currently have an ssh pipe to a remote imap service.  This is
> a straight-forward ssh tunnel.  In the past there have been
> circumstances where this connection has failed.  In order to
> automatically re-establish the pipe I wrote an 'upstart' job to set up
> the pipe and automatically restart after a stoppage.
> 
> How is this sort of thing handled in FreeBSD?  Through cron monitoring?

	For this particular job I would suggest using autossh started in
rc.local or with a minimal rc script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which you'd
have to write - personally I'd go with rc.local.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>