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process monitor and restart utility



On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:21:29AM -0500, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> I am looking for a utility that essentially keeps a list of processes to 
> monitor (in a flat file much like crontab) and restarts them if they 
> crash (or fail to respond to some condition like a http get).  However, 
> I'd also like it to provide an optional notification of the 
> crash/restart and there should be a way to stop the process without 
> having it automatically restarted.  I've written scripts to do this but 
> there's got to be a standard or commonly used utility out there to do 
> this.  I read that Debian has something called restartd.  Ideally, I'd 
> like something that is actively supported open source and compiles/runs 
> on Fedora.  Recommendations?

http://www.fefe.de/minit/

http://smarden.org/runit/

http://initng.thinktux.net

-dsr-

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