Re: [cobalt-developers] swatch

[Will DeHaan <will@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Foster wrote:
> 
> > swatch (aka Active Monitor) monitors and repairs system services and
> > resources.
> > How long has this swatch process been running?  I've never heard of
> a
> > runaway process before.  The program is very fast and lean.  It is
> > invoked every 15 minutes from /etc/crontab.  /etc/cobalt/swatch
> contains
> > per-service configuration files for swatch.
> 
> It's been running now for 30361 minutes (21 days, 2 hours - 4 hours
> less than uptime).  Seeing as it will be reinvoked by cron, can I
> assume it's safe to kill?

Yes, it should be safe to kill.  

Once killed, run /usr/local/sbin/swatch from the command line as root. 
It should exit without errors within a minute or so.

This is a little ambiguous, but has anything abnormal happened to this
RaQ?  Did a partition completely fill? 


	-- Will

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