"watchdog" for a process?

[Michael R. Head]

On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:53 -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?

I believe you could construct such a script around start-stop-daemon:
http://www.annodex.net/cgi-bin/man/man2html?start-stop-daemon+8

mike

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