Greetings to all Gentoo-users! Is it somehow possible to check, whether a certain process is running, and if not, then start it? I would like to use it for some processes that crush sometimes (like teamspeak and some game-servers), and to mointor sshd, because it is critical for me (my server will be 300km away from me).
I thought about writing some small shell-script, which would be run by cron at regular intervals, check if a process is running (something like "ps -e | grep $PROCNAME", or maybe with "pidof -s $PROCNAME") and if not, than it would start that process with its script in /etc/init.d. But if there is already something which would do the same, I don't want to work on inventing the wheel again. Moreover, my shell scripts are rather "quick'n'dirty", so maybe I should start with reading "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide"... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
