On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:15:38 -0500 "Lansing, Dan" <Dan.Lansing at AndersenCorp.com> wrote: >I have written a small ugly script to restart some services which >occasionally quit for unknown reasons...is there a way I can write a script >to check if the services are running and run my restart script if they die? There are a lot of different ways to handle this. The way I handle it for one of my servers, is every 15 min a script is run from cron, and uses pidof to determine if there are any processes running with that name. If the process writes its pid to a file, just check to see if that pid is running (though this can fail- its possible for the process to quit, and a new, unrelated process to get its pid). Another option is to use the daemontools suite (please, no flamewars- it IS an option). Jay _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list