"watchdog" for a process?

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On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:53:06PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> > Is there a quick and short script, maybe something that can be run in
> > Cron, that will look at the process list and if a process has been
> > killed or had died will restart the process?
>
> In addtion to the other suggestions and for completeness, you might
> look at 'supervise'.

Supervise is a part of "daemontools". Search for that in apt.

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