>> would anyone be interested in adding a cute little respawning daemon
>> to the tree?  something that runs a program and then starts it again
>> when it dies?
>
>On SysV init will do this for you, of course.  Usually on *BSD
>something like the following is sufficient, although it runs in a
>tight loop if you ask it to start something that fails immediately.
>
>	#! /bin/sh
>
>	case "$#" in
>	0)	echo "usage: restart command [arg ...]" 1>&2
>		exit 1
>		;;
>	esac
>
>	while :
>	do
>		"$@"
>	done

sure, it sort of accomplishes the same kind of thing, but it's
not nice, is it?  i made a program that has a velocity control
in it (for things that die too quickly) and logs all output to
syslog (instead of losing it to /dev/null or /dev/console.

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