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authorWill Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>2000-06-09 21:51:09 +0000
committerWill Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>2000-06-09 21:51:09 +0000
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Add monitord, a simple service monitoring daemon that restarts a service
should it go down (gee, does this sound like cron or what?). PR: 19011 Submitted by: Walt M. Shandruk <walt@erudition.net>
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=29475
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+This port allows one to monitor other standalone services and automatically
+restart them if they are accidentally and unwittingly terminated, or crash
+either because of instability or a DoS attack.
+
+- Walt
+walt@erudition.net