On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 03:56 AM, Dennis Davis wrote:
>> I have set up my spam assassin router and transports, they are
>> working great, but I am a bit worried if spamd goes down, then
>> Exim starts to queue messages as the spam router cannot connect to
>> spamd. How have you guys delt with this situation?
> ...
>
> Daemons can often be run in the foreground. Certainly spamd can if
> you omit the daemonize argument. I'm a fan of installing Dan
> Bernstein's
> daemontools package from:
>
> http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
>
> To quote from the above page:
>
> supervise monitors a service. It starts the service and restarts
> the service if it dies. Setting up a new service is easy: all
> supervise needs is a directory with a run script that runs the
> service.
This is something that I wold love to implement on my system, however,
I could not get it to compile on OSX 10.2.2 :( I have emailed the
author to see if he or anyone else has had success getting this package
to compile on OSX 10.2.2.
regards
--will