James Berry <jberry@macports.org> writes:
I'll have to look at the Daemondo code again. I'm not sure whether it will get a child death notice for a script that it didn't start directly, and this may be the problem in the case that you describe.
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Thanks James, I appreciate it. If it can't do that the docs will need updated because I thought it would. But I guess I was supposing that daemondo monitored the process by looking at the pidfile; if it has to passively receive a death notice I can see how that might not work. Would actively monitoring daemons (for non-executable startupitems) be too expensive? It seems like it has most of the logic to do it based on the way it started multiple processes when the pidfile wasn't located correctly. It seems like having it check once in awhile after it is running wouldn't be to much of a stretch. But then you know what they say, the less you know about something, the easier it seems. :) Mark