"watchdog" for a process?

[sktsee]

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?
> 

You should find something in list generated with the following command:

$ apt-cache search process |grep monitor

(hint)
ps-watcher seems to fit your criteria.

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sktsee