[Zope3-dev] Is there an alternative to zdaemon?
Paul Winkler
pw_lists at slinkp.com
Fri Dec 22 17:41:41 EST 2006
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:38:33PM +0100, Sascha Ottolski wrote:
> > At my previous job, we used daemontools, which was OK, except we never
> > found a solution to the problem of "I want to get email notifications
> > when the system is restarting unexpectedly, but I don't want my mail
> > to get a DOS attack when the system can't start successfully so it
> > keeps restarting forever".
>
> hmm, what about:
>
> let the run script touch or write some status file; the very same script would
> send an email on a "normal" restart, but may stop to do so if the status file
> is to new. hmm, thinking further, the script could even delay or block the
> restart, if desired. i guess the "run" script could also be written in
> python.
Sure, but it's such a common need that ideally I'd like that to be
taken care of for me :-)
supervisor normally gives up after some number of restart attempts,
which is fine with me.
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Paul Winkler
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