[OpenWrt-Devel] Ubus based service watchdog?

[Philip Prindeville]

> On May 13, 2020, at 11:48 AM, Michael Jones <mike at meshplusplus.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a critical service on my OpenWRT system that needs monitoring and re-starting if it's failed.
> 
> I've been looking for a mechanism in procd that would allow me to request that my service be terminated if it did not periodically notify some watchdog endpoint via ubus.
> 
> It seems to me like this is not something that is currently supported by procd, and I've written my own clumsy "watchdog" wrapper program that tries to do the job.
> 
> Are there any plans to support a feature like this in procd directly in the future?
> 
> If there are no plans, and I were to write code for this, would OpenWRT be interested in reviewing, and then merging, patches?
> 
> Are there other people on this list who would take advantage of this feature if it were available? If so, what functionality would you like to see?
> 


So existing services that are launched by procd (like ISC dhcpd) would need to be patched to support this?

-Philip


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