hi everyone, the following is a patch to allow stats(1) to reconnect to a machine that went awol, be it for network or other issues. i don't think it's the best procedure, especially given how it blocks the Mainproc, although it does the job for me and my usual monitoring-after-reboot needs. if any of you have a better method (to keep the graphs drawing would be neat), please let me know. i'll keep fiddling with it when i have more time. best, -rodri