January 25, 2017 10:41 AM, "Seth Miller" wrote: Maybe I'm not understanding the question but isn't this exactly what the init processes (SysVinit, Upstart, Systemd) do? Sort of. Here's a couple of links on why these might not be the best. The second is quite old, but still good info. http://smarden.org/runit/benefits.html (http://smarden.org/runit/benefits.html) https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/faq/create.html#why (https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/faq/create.html#why) And philosophically I'm opposed to using init to start userland processes, though that's just my opinion. John -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20170125/116c7e3c/attachment.html>