Server Administration: automatically restarting services

[Matt Cristantello]

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Hey,

I was just wondering if any of you have come across any projects to
automatically restart crashed or broken services (such as sshd, apache,
etc.) in linux. I have rcN.d and init.d scripts set up, but I'd like
something to check, say every five minutes, and see if a process is
still running/is in a good state, then restart it if it's not. I can do
something similar using ps -A, grep, and then running the init.d script
if necessary, but I'd like somethign a little more automatic. If nothing
like this has been done, I'll look into writing something and releasing
it under the GPL or something like that.

Thanks,
~Matt

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