Lansing, Dan writes:
> 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?   

Use a daemon monitoring program such as daemontools:

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

There are a number of reasons why you want to use daemontools:

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/faq/create.html#why

Here is a collection of run scripts for daemontools or runit:

http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html

-- 
David Phillips <david at acz.org>
http://david.acz.org/


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