Keep a daemon running on FreeBSD
What you're looking for is called a supervisor. I don't think FreeBSD comes with one out of the box. But there are some in the ports. I see at least;
- supervisord is available as a port called
py-supervisor
(the port has several flavors, install withpkg install py37-supervisor
or whatever matches your Python version). - daemontools is available as a port.
- Monit is available as a port.
- FSCD is available as a port called
fsc
.
I suggest supervisord. Install the package and add a stanza to /usr/local/etc/supervisord.conf
:
[program:memcached]
command=/usr/local/etc/rc.d/memcached
To run supervisord at boot time, edit /etc/rc.conf
or /etc/rc.conf.local
to have the line
supervisord_enable="YES"
Whichever supervisor you choose, make sure to disable the direct starting of memcached
.