RESTARTD(8)

🌸 RESTARTD(8) — ok bestie, let's talk daemons 🌸

restartd — your lil process checker and/or reloader 💅

✨ NAME ✨

restartd — process checker and/or reloader 🫶

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Okay so Restartd is a daemon (yes, a daemon, main character energy, lives in the background, never texts back) that checks up on processes — the ones that are running and the ones that are very much not. 💀

Every n seconds it reads the /proc directory and runs a POSIX regexp on the process names. Then, if a process is running or is not running, you can execute a script or a program. It's giving "personal assistant but for your processes". 👑

For executing, restartd uses system(3).

For logging, restartd uses syslog with LOG_INFO and LOG_ERR facilities.

Not me casually regexing your entire process table every 20 seconds. It's fine. It's a vibe. 🦋

💖 OPTIONS 💖

restartd follows the GNU command line syntax. Slay, standard, we love to see it.

• -h, --help — Displays a little help. Just a lil guy. A snack-sized amount of help. 🎀
• -v, --version — Show the version number and quit. Blink and it's gone. ✨
• -d, --debug — Add very limited debugging. Lowkey debugging. Emphasis on very limited, bestie, don't get your hopes up. 🙈
• -i --interval — The process check interval in seconds. The default is 20. So every 20 seconds it does its lil check-in. 🕐
• -c --config — Use a different configuration file instead of /etc/restartd.conf. Custom config file, custom era. 💜
• -f --foreground — Run restartd in foreground without detaching from the controlling terminal. No disappearing act, it stays right there with you. 👀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Tibor Koleszar <t.koleszar@somogy.hu> and updated by Aurélien GÉRÔME <ag@roxor.cx> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

Last modify: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:42:57 +0200

And that's the whole page, bestie — go forth and restart some processes. 💖 This lil writeup is from the RESTARTD(8) manual, dated 14 Sep 2006. Periodt. 🎀✨🦋