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/etc/init.d/script, or /etc/inittab - respawn on die
I have a daemon/service (milter-regex), that is dying. I'm only using it temporarily (A few months), so don't care too much, but I want it to restart when it dies.
It is an init.d script. 'service ...
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Why does Redhat's daemon function not have a group setting?
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I'm a Ubuntu/Debian fan and most of my development experience has been on that platform but my current employer uses Redhat. I needed to write a simple init.d script and want the ...
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Is it good practice to create a background job within an init script if the process can not daemonize itself?
I am fairly new to *nix, and have come across the need to drop multiple processes, that should be run 100% of the time. to background using &.
I use the following line in an init.d script to do ...
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Prevent init daemon echoing on TTY
Below is an init script which starts/stops a daemon. The daemon is unfortunately printing the parsed packet data (from /home/nuthan/program/server), a socket server written in perl, listening to a ...