[JDEV] Keeping jabberd alive

[kadokev at msg.net]

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:11:59AM -0600, Steven R. Staton wrote:
> > Does anyone have a handy bash(1) script to keep restarting jabberd when it
> > dies?
> 
> You can just add a respawn line to your inittab. Has the additional
> advantage that it wont fail and does some fail-rate-limiting.
 
I run 'jabberd' out of svscan, part of Bernstein's daemontools package. This
also takes care of logging the messages from the daemon, but doesn't do any
rate limiting.

Kevin