tech-userlevel archive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]

Re: "rcutil" - a script to monitor status of daemons started in rc.d



On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:29:25PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:56:09AM -0500, Ed Ravin wrote:
> > Attached is a script that checks to see what daemons in rc.d have
> > rcvar=YES, and then runs "/etc/rc.d/XXXX status" to see if the daemon
> > is running.  I use this to "sanity check" a box, like after it's run
> > out of swap and has randomly killed who-knows-what.  It can also be run
> > out of cron or snmpd to test whether all the configured daemons on a box
> > are running.
...
> Did you really intend to license this script under the GPL (without
> specifying a particular version, but that's beside the point)?  If it
> were under a BSD compatible license, I think it's likely we'd just
> ship it with NetBSD.

Point taken.  Let me know what I should replace it with and I will re-issue
the script.  Would the license text from the top of /etc/rc.subr work?


Home | Main Index | Thread Index | Old Index