"watchdog" for a process?

[David Restall - System Administrator]

Hi,

> 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?

Have a look at <http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/> - then :-

sudo apt-get install monit

if it's what you want.

IIRC there was something else I used many years ago but can't remember
what it was - my brain is fading with age :-(

TTFN


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