hi list,

what can i do about a daemon that crashed in a way (clamsmtpd on NetBSD 
2.0.2-RELEASE/SPARC64) that not even a kill -9 `PID` got me rid of it?

my (production) system finally hang in a shutdown loop trying to kill 
it -- for 16 hours till i reached somebody of the colocating ISP to 
power cycle it :(

are daemontools [1] an option? they monitor a service and bring it back 
up if it got killed (also behaviour of clamsmtpd on my machine), but 
that's not exactly what i need...

tia & regards,

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