(...) I'm really sorry about that. I've got a script that runs once a minute and checks whether xinetd is running, and if it finds that it isn't, it restarts it. I installed this a couple months ago when we had the massive NNTP traffic -- it was (...) (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
(...) I guess your script could try killing it every couple of seconds until it dies? Or does it continue to fail? ROSCO (21 years ago, 23-Dec-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
