I'm now using Kerio Mail Server at a client site as well as for my
own mail server needs. It is a fine product with good features, but
unfortunately it likes to commit suicide on a fairly regular basis,
depending on whether you use the Outlook Connector, apparently.

Anyway, that just won't do, so here is a quick-and-dirty Python 
script, run from cron every minute, that will check if Kerio is
running and, if not, bring it back to life:



#!/usr/bin/env python

""" Restart KMS if it has died (Kerio can be fragile).

This is run every minute from a cron job.
"""

import sys
import os

f = os.popen("ps -A | grep mailserver")

for line in f.readlines():
        if "grep mailserver" not in line:
                if "mailserver" in line:
                        sys.exit()

os.system("/etc/init.d/keriomailserver start")

#-- end

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Kudos to Mozilla for the quick turnaround for security fixes. But,
it is becoming a maintenance headache having to download a complete
4.7 MB download of Firefox, and click through the Windows Installer
on every single machine.

Mozilla, please look into providing patches instead, posted to an
ftp server that my scripts can check and apply to my installed
user base automatically. This will be more efficient for everyone.
Thanks!

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