how to run a program as a daemon

[Joshua Oreman]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:59PM -0400 or thereabouts, David Banning wrote:
> I am running tmda-ofmipd for my smtp server and occasionally
> it dies. I wonder how I could set it up to run so that if it
> dies for some reason, it will start up again. Right now, it 
> starts in my rc.local like so;
> 
> /usr/local/bin/tmda-ofmipd  -R imap://localhost -u tofmipd
> 
> The only way I can think of doing it is to set up a crontab
> entry to a program that would check if it is still running, 
> and if it is not, then have it start it again. 
> 
> I was hoping there is an easier way, maybe by putting it in inetd.conf
> or something...

You can use /etc/ttys for this (despite the name).

-- Josh

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