respawning dead tinc process

[Daniel J. Grinkevich]

This is what we use on our routers, running once a minute via crontab.


> if pgrep "tincd" >/dev/null; then
>   echo "tincd is running"
> else
>   echo "tincd isn't running, restarting"
>   tincd -n nycmesh
> fi


On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:07 AM, pjv <pjv at pjv.me> wrote:

> I have tinc 1.1pre11 running on various routers and linux cloud servers.
> On one of the cloud servers, under Ubuntu 12.04, tinc is mysteriously dying
> once in a while, leaving a dangling PID. I have been unable to track down
> why it is dying, but it happens infrequently enough that I care less about
> why it is dying than how to robustly respawn it when it dies.
>
> Before I re-invent the wheel, has anyone come up with a solution for
> automatically detecting a dead tincd and respawning the process on linux?
>
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