nanny.pl revision 40f53fa8d9c6a4fc38c0014495e7a42b08f52481
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
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# $Id: nanny.pl,v 1.7 2000/08/01 01:17:47 tale Exp $
# A simple nanny to make sure named stays running.
$pid_file_location = '/var/run/named.pid';
$nameserver_location = 'localhost';
$dig_program = 'dig';
$named_program = 'named';
fork() && exit();
for (;;) {
$pid = 0;
open(FILE, $pid_file_location) || goto restart;
$pid = <FILE>;
close(FILE);
chomp($pid);
$res = kill 0, $pid;
goto restart if ($res == 0);
$dig_command =
"$dig_program +short . \@$nameserver_location > /dev/null";
$return = system($dig_command);
goto restart if ($return == 9);
sleep 30;
next;
restart:
if ($pid != 0) {
kill 15, $pid;
sleep 30;
}
system ($named_program);
sleep 120;
}