06-30-2008, 05:15 AM
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 Re: How to get an "alert" when a process dies
nicc777 writes:
> Is there a way to trigger an event (like running a script) when a
> process dies? Perhaps even a script to restart a process if it detects
> that it's dead?
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> I have been using cron for monitoring processes up to now, but the
> monitoring interval is 1 minute apart. I have a project (streaming of
> nature) that should not go down, but the problem is that sometimes it
> dies and it takes up to a minute before the traditional monitoring
> script will restart it.
See http://upstart.ubuntu.com
In the end you are looking for some sort of process supervisor.
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