[svlug] Process watchdog

[John Conover]

Tomer writes:
> Hi all
> Anyone know an easy way to place a watchdog deamon that will monitor a
> process being alive and if not, restart it? E.g. I have tomcat running and
> it sometime dies off. I want some deamon that will find out the tomcat
> process (Actually java) is no longer running and then relaunch it. 
>

"man inittab(5)", and see "respawn".

    John

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