On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:09:32 +0100 Trog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 15:06 +0100, Nigel Horne wrote: > > > I don't see the need for it. Clamav-milter is stable. > > > > "One of those people actually has seen it restart the milter when it > > had failed." > > > > No bug report was received that the milter is failing. It would be a > > better use of the author's time to track down alledged problems with > > existing software than write yet more software. > > I actually agree with this sentiment, and it also applies to > the various clamd monitoring scripts, which are also a bug hiding > hack.
I disagree with those general sentiments. Watchdogs are built into (almost) all expensive high-end servers (which tends to be extremely stable). Even the Mars Pathfinder had a watchdog on board. They're essential for mission critical applications. And mail delivery is a mission critical service, IMHO. -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Wed Apr 27 01:13:40 CEST 2005
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