App to manage/track/spawn processes

[Tim]

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 06:33 -0800, bruce wrote:
> Of course I'd like to know if I'm already running a given child app,
> so I only have a child app with the same input args running once. I'd
> also like to be able to track when a child app is halted/stuck, so I
> can gracefully kill it, and restart it...
>
> Any thoughts on any kind of open source app that does this, or gets
> close...

Sounds rather like how the Apache webserver works.  Perhaps you might
want to look into how it does what it does.

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