Re: making a process "watch dog" - shell or Perl?

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

See ...  that's why I asked.  That's way more clever than
what I did.  I spewed the process list to a file, looked
for the process and if it wasn't there, restarted it.  It
runs every 1 minute under cron.  Yours is live.  Cool. 
Thanks!

--- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:34:50AM -0800, Robert Threet
> wrote:
> > What's everybody use to monitor a process and restart
> it if
> > it dies?  I was going to write something but I figured
> > someone out there already did.  
> 
> Here's one I wrote to clean up after a dead named and
> restart it:
> 
>    
>
http://www.silug.org/~steve/software/scripts/perl/namedmon
> 
> The script could be modified for any other process pretty
> trivially.
> 
> If the process can be made to not fork itself into the
> background, the
> job is even easier.  You can just run it with this:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     while :; do
>         $program $options
>     done
> 
> (Wrap that whole thing in "( ) &" to run it in the
> background.)  Or
> you can add the process to /etc/inittab and let init
> respawn it for
> you.
> 
> Steve
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