Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 05/03/2006 05:17:20
PM:

<snip>
> The only thing that inittab does right now that /etc/init.d scripts
> can't do is automatically respawn a failed application if it dies. We'd
> just need to write a "spawner" application that initialized, forked a
> specified command line as a child, and monitored it.
<snip again>

I, being a mainframe dinosaur, just wrote a script that checks for the
processes' existence.  If it ain't there, it starts it. I cron it every 5
to 15 mins based on how important the task is.  (Actually, it does a
netstat and checks for the port.) Samples available for the asking.

tomS

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