rc and smf

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Feb 24 10:14:22 PST 2005


On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:52:38PM -0500, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> Nothing solves every problem. Supervision solves the 'Oops, something
> crashed, and needs to be restarted' problem. If my nearby nuclear power
> plant's reactor monitoring software running on a Unix box gets killed
> due to a memory leak, I want it restarted immediately, not wait for the
> administrator to find out by the time the reactor melts down. All fault
> tolerant systems have some kind of supervision in software. Nobody would
> hire you to run one of them.

ttys(5)

Joerg





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