Jarry wrote: > 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 >
emerge -pv sys-process/daemontools These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-process/daemontools-0.76-r4 -doc (-selinux) -static 36 kB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
