[ale] Looking for software to keep processes running.

[jb at devsea.com (John Wells)]

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:42:39 -0500
Jim Lynch <jwl at sgi.com> wrote:

> I've got a number of scripts that start processes that run in user space 
> that I'd like to keep running.  (RH 7.2).  Is there a utility that would 
> help me?  I know I can write a script that would do a ps periodically and 
> make sure the process was still running and if not start it up, but I was 
> just curious if there was a utility that would automate that process. I 
> googled for something, but didn't see anything promising, except a 
> reference to Big Brother.


Jim,

Maybe this will help?

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html