On 1/2/08, Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a watchdog daemon that monitors individual processes > (given a pid file for each one), and restarts one if its pid is found to > not be running. This is different than the typical watchdog, which would > reboot the entire computer if a problem were found. Does this exist? I > would also like for it to quit watchdogging a process if it continually > crashes (i.e., if it is restarted N times in M seconds), or at least > slow down on the restart interval. Any ideas?
/etc/inittab can do this with the respawn option, although it's not pidfile-based. http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svc.html also does most of what you want. Not sure if it throttles restarts after too many crashes. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
