Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> writes: > Quoting Austad, Jay (austad at marketwatch.com): > > What's a good tool to use to monitor if a particular process is running, and > > then restart it if it dies? > > > > Preferably a perl or a shell script as I don't have compilers on the box I > > need to use it on, and I want to stay far far away from DJB's daemontools. > > Here is what I use for my setiathome script. Homebrew. Based on their recent web page, they'd like you to put a delay in there so if it failed to connect, it didn't retry immediately. Seems their server gets really hammered :-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / Ghugle: the Fannish Ghod of Queries John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/