[ale] permanent process

[Keith Hopkins]

David Corbin wrote:
> I have several processes that I would like to be up "all the time" 
> (maintenance excluded).  Normally, this screams "inittab" at me, but 
> given then nature of the process (networking related), I don't want them 
> spawned right when inittab is processed.  Any suggestions on how to 
> handle this?
> 
> For the record, I'm talking about pppoe (DSL), and vtun(which runs over 
> the pppoe).  I've had some problems lately with pppoe "disappearing".  I 
> could easily have a script that monitors and restarts, but is this the 
> best way?
> 

A (seperate) watchdog process is good.  or, if you don't mind polling no more often than every minute, cron can work too.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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