Peter da Silva wrote:
>
> > >Easy on UNIX. There's only two places where services can be set up on UNIX.
> > > /etc/rc*
> > > /etc/inetd.conf
>
> > How about /var/spool/cron/crontabs ?
>
> a) I have never seen a *service* started up from crontabs or atjobs.
> b) No UNIX system is shipped with a server starting from there.
> c) In setting up a firewall, I can't see any way you'd be setting
> a service up to run from crontab.
> d) And if you did, *you* did it, not the vendor. Presumably when
> you're setting up a firewall you know what you're doing.
> e) If you don't know what you're doing, hire someone who does
> before you play this game.
Some packages, such as listproc and INN use crontab to make sure the
appropriate daemon is still running. They execute a little script every
15 minutes or so and if they cannot find the daemon via "ps" the script
will re-launch the daemon.
I use the same trick for many other things, like checking for smapd and
xntpd.
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