[svlug] Process watchdog

[James Sparenberg]

On Friday 02 May 2008 02:10:31 pm Tomer wrote:
> 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.
>
> Even a short script with ps -ef and grepping inside a constant loop would
> do if you have it.
>
> Thanks!

Being the lazy cus I am.  I use webmin.  Under the others link, there is 
process monitoring that allows you to configure restarts.  It also will mail 
you, or sms alert you when it triggers.  I use it for ssh daemons, sendmail 
daemons etc.  

James