[wplug] Need suggestion on how to respawn/restart program

[Eric Cooper]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:23:12PM -0400, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> Normally when I want a program to run and never die I just put it
> into inittab as a respawn.
> 
> I would like something I can have a bit more control over.
> I want to be able to control a program (start/stop) but also have it 
> automatically restart if it dies.
> 
> Similar to FireDeamon (on Windows) does.
> 
> I'm sure I could do an init script for the start/stop but how should
> the auto restart be done?  Monitor the PID?
> 
> Perhaps there is already an easy solution out there?

I haven't used this myself, but it looks like it fits the bill:
    http://www.libslack.org/daemon/
(It's available in Debian as "daemon".)

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