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

[Robert E. Coutch]

I see our new server is pre-loaded with Plesk.

It seems to have a feature that monitors services.
I'll just have to figure out how to set it up.

Anyone have any comments on Plesk?

-Bob

On Thursday 25 May 2006 08:23 pm, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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?
>
>
> Thanks for any tips,
>
> Bob
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