[IRCServices] Services

Harhalakis Stefanos v13 at it.teithe.gr
Sun Jan 9 14:18:48 PST 2000


On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, The Phantom of the Internet wrote:

> I only see one problem with this round-robin effect for services.  The 
> current coding has services shut back down if there is an error where it is 
> unable to connect to the specified server.  Now if services somehow hits the 
> ip address on this round-robin which is down then it will shut down and wait 
> to retry until the next cron job.  Which depending on the Admin who set this 
> situation up could be anywhere from 5-30 minutes.
 You don't have to use cron. You can have a script like:

while /bin/true; do
 ./services -nofork
done

or make it as complex as you like. This way services will restart
immediately after dying.

> The Phantom
<<V13>>

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