[IRCServices Coding] what happens when the ircd crashes/services delinks for _insert reason_

[Sean Kelly]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:22:01PM -0500, David Orman wrote:
> Why doesn't the services daemon handle this transparently? Surely it
> happens often enough to warrent the functionality built into services. It
> seems a bit...messy...to have to use cron to handle it. If that's how it
> has to be done though, that's how it has to be done. :)

I don't know how unstable your network is, but it is extremely rare for
either services or an ircd to crash on our network. In fact, it is almost
unheard of. On top of that, I would guess that most configurations have
services connecting to a server on localhost, thus lessening the chances of
networking issues causing a link failure. Really, the only time our
services go down is when the machine is rebooted after applying necessary
patches and such to the OS. I see no need for services tu auto-reconnect in
such an environment.

> > Use a crontab entry that runs a script which checks to see if they are
> > still running. If they aren't, then the script should restart them.

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