Process Watchdogs

[Rod Haper]

Richard Worwood wrote:
> I'm have a problem with one of my servers at the moment where services
> keep stopping and I would like to setup some kind of watchdog process to
> keep this in check, notify me when it happens and restart them.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Richard
> 


Put them in your '/etc/inittab' with the "respawn" action and let init 
run them when your server boots.  If they die, init will restart them. 
See the man pages for 'init' and 'inittab'.