[ale] Restarting if bind dies

Jonathan Rickman infosec at alltel.net
Thu Feb 8 19:24:49 EST 2001


On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Dan Newcombe wrote:

> I am running bind 9.latest, and every so often it dies of an assertion
> error.  I was planning on going back to 8.latest for a while, then I
> thought   Instead of running just named, why not run a script like below.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> while (/bin/true)
> do
>  /usr/local/sbin/named -f
>  #something to alert me that bind puked
> done
> 
> comments?  anyone else doing something like this?

Cheops has this type of monitoring built in, if you are running X or have
something on the same network running X.

Get it at freshmeat

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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