[rancid] Re: Running rancid as a deamon

[john heasley]

Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 05:20:06PM +0530, vishal.ud:
> I was wondering if this is possible since the advantages wud be as below

i don't know what "wud" is.

> 1) instant notifications if changes made unlike waiting for the cron runs

see the faq for a way to do that.

>  2) eliminates the dependency on the cron if it fails to run

i think you far more problems if you can't even rely upon cron.  perhaps
try a more stable o/s.