http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html I dont use it myself but it apparently does exactly what you want and is written by a fairly well known and generally accepted secure code writer and author of the Qmail MTA and djbdns apps. On Monday 04 September 2006 21:13, Donovan Niesen wrote: > I've been looking for a package that could accomplish something similar to > "procautostart": > > http://www.linuxjunkies.org/html/Process-Monitor-HOWTO.html > > Basically it monitors a specific process and if it finds that it failed, it > issues a command/restarts the process. This one seemed straight-forward > enough but I can't seem to get it to compile on my Ubuntu box. Does > anybody use this script or something similar to keep a critical process > alive?