Process watchdog

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We need a process watchdog that will run every few minutes and restart NSM 
processes if necessary

Original issue reported on code.google.com by doug.bu...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2011 at 1:47

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Created /etc/cron.d/nsm-watchdog:

# /etc/cron.d/nsm-watchdog
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# crontab entry to restart processes if they fail

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

*/5 *   * * * root  /usr/local/sbin/nsm_watchdog >> /var/log/nsm/watchdog.log

Original comment by doug.bu...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2011 at 4:41

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Created new nsm package:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fpm-0.3.11/bin/fpm -s dir -t deb -n 
securityonion-nsmnow-admin-scripts -v 20111229 /etc/init.d/nsm* 
/usr/share/nsmnow/ /usr/local/sbin/nsm* /usr/local/lib/nsmnow/ 
/etc/cron.d/sensor-* /etc/cron.d/nsm* /etc/init/securityonion.conf

Original comment by doug.bu...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 12:45

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Published:
http://securityonion.blogspot.com/2011/12/security-onion-20111229-now-available.
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Original comment by doug.bu...@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2011 at 1:12

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