Re: [wlug] Daemon monitoring tools.

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It basically was a tool that ensured that particular daemons on a host were always running. Ie, if they crashed or whatever the monitoring app ran the appropriate rc script to restart them.

Uhm, init?

Regards,

netsaint. init won't do much when something like mysqld gets wedged and stops respoding. Partly because mysqld hasn't actually exited, and partly because init doesn't spawn mysqld.. but netsaint will check things like mysqld periodically and take some action when it stops responding. Usually it'll mail an admin, but you can configure it to bounce mysqld. Be warned, this doesn't always work out as well as you might expect.