Re: restarting ipropd-master

[Dr A V Le Blanc <LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:04:54PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> I was playing a bit with ipropd (master/slave) to see if I could replace 
> hprop (which I've been suing for a while). I like the idea of 
> incremental propagation, but there's a real stopper for me:
> - each time the ipropd-master process dies, stop, restart... I have to 
> restart _all_ the ipropd-slave once the master is back.
> Is there any workaround to this ? Can't the slaves stay up even when the 
> master is not available ?
> I though about adding ipropd to inetd.conf but I'm really _not_ sure 
> this is the right way to go.

I run a cron job on the slaves that checks and restarts the
ipropd-slave once the master is back.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk