Andy Bradford wrote:
>
> Thus said "dennis" on Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:23:55 +1100:
>
> > I must be as thick as two short planks but for the file of me I can't get my
> > head around how SVSCAN works. Can someone please enlighten me, PLEASE !!
>
> svscan ``scans'' the directory that you give it for other directories.
> For each directory it finds, it spawns a supervise process that
> monitors the service defined in the run file found in that directory.
> If a supervise process (which monitors a service) dies for some odd
> reason it will restart another supervise process on that directory to
> keep the service running. That's all it does, plain and simple.
>
Hi,
I tried to use svscan for something other than qmail and couldn't get
it to work. The process in question, slapd, wasn't producing specific
log files, and svscan refused to start. It works just fine for me with
qmail when I specify the log files for qmail.
Mike
