It may be useful to use the command: 'ps aux'. This command will display a list of all the currently running processes. You could run this manually every so often and then check the output to make sure that none of the processes are missing; or you could write a script that checks every so often, checks for the processes that you want to check for, and then notifies you are leaves a log of which services aren't running. Hope this is helpful.
On Sep 6, 3:34 am, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a weird little problem. > > I run my webserver - all aspects. I am root. I am powerful. I am > confused. > > But that's to be expected. > > So I've got this system set up and it works beautifully. Apache sends > requests to a Mongrel Rails thread so Ruby can run my site, and then > Apache will run Subversion on the site really fast. The only issue is > that once in a while I run out of memory (this being an inexpensive > VPS) and it scares one of my system's services, and it just gives up > the ghost and dies. Sometimes it's Apache. Other times it's Sendmail > (which is annoying, because if sendmail isn't alive it's not > immediately obvious, so it can take a week or two to realize "gee, > Redmine isn't sending me any email! I wonder why!"). Other times its > the Mongrel threads themselves. > > So I created cron scripts to restart Apache every day, and to verify > the status of the mongrel threads every hour. But fate being what it > is, they're down when I'm trying to use the site, and therefore I have > to log in and start them up. > > I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool that could provide a bit more > immediate results, constantly verifying that a process or daemon is > running, and to start it if it's not. I'd settle for something that > runs every minute (that isn't a cron job, since they leave me feeling > very icky, kind of like a lame hack. It works, but there should be a > better solution). > > I was thinking that there's bound to be a kind of "process nazi" tool > that'll keep things running smoothly, but I don't know of any. I'm > running Debian 5. > > Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions! > > Registered Linux Addict #431495http://profile.xfire.com/mrstalinman| John > 3:16!http://www.fsdev.net/|http://lordsauron.wordpress.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
