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authorChristian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>2015-11-06 17:01:52 +0100
committerChristian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>2015-11-06 17:01:52 +0100
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@@ -160,6 +160,16 @@ Use snooze inline, cron-style mail:
actualjob >output 2>&1 ||
mail -s "$(hostname): snooze job failed with status $?" root <output
+Snooze for rate-limiting a general purpose runit service: don't
+restart faster than every two minutes. (Note that after a crash with a
+daemon runtime of more than two minutes, it will be restarted
+immediately):
+
+ set -e
+ snooze -H'*' -M'*' -S'*' -t timefile -T 2m
+ touch timefile
+ exec mydaemond
+
## Installation
Use `make all` to build, `make install` to install relative to `PREFIX`