[Steve was asking about this; I'll bounce it to the list...]

Task #1219 is "Summary: Add option to slon_kill.pl to only kill
watchdogs"

A feature that I have discovered would be useful is that of being able
to choose between:

a) Killing off watchdogs
b) Killing off slons

At present, slon_kill.pl kills them all, which is not necessarily optimal.

In particular, I find a use case for just killing off watchdogs:

We have a server (happily not a primary one) that has been falling
over. When that has happened, I got called to restart slons :-(.

The thought:

- Set up a job every so often [in this case, every 15 minutes] which
uses slon_kill.pl to just kill off the watchdogs

- If the server falls over, this cron job will restart the watchdogs
which will in turn restart slons

- If the server _doesn't_ fall over, watchdogs may periodically get
replaced by other watchdogs, but they don't bother interrupting slons
that are running happily. (Don't provoke the elephant if you don't
need to :-))

I have "hacked" a change into place locally, but it would be nice to
have a nice, clean "--watchdogs-only" or "--slons-only" option in
version 1.1.

I haven't got a comparable "use case" for a "--slons-only" option; it
just seems orthogonal, and orthogonality always seems right :-).
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