Replication rolling or cron?

[Bron Gondwana]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:43:08AM +0000, Ian Batten wrote:
>>
>> (at FastMail we start it from cyrus.conf, but also have a job that
>> runs from cron and checks that there's a sync_client running every 10
>> minutes.
>
> It also works well with SMF if you're a Solaris site.
>
> $ svcs -x sync_client
> svc:/network/sync_client:default (?)
>  State: online since Thu Feb 12 22:53:26 2009
>    See: /var/svc/log/network-sync_client:default.log
> Impact: None.
> $
>
> That way it restarts on failure.

Or good old "init" on pretty much anything unixy.

Our monitoring script also scans for other issues though,
and retries the failed log files of past sync_clients.
I like layers of stuff checking on each other!

Bron.