initscripts: Can it restart a service automatically if onecrashes?

[Peter Robinson]

> dragonman at asiayeah.com (Tony Yat-Tung Cheung) writes:
>
>> I am going to write an init script for a 3rd party application. I
>> would like the application to restart itself automatically if it
>> crashes or core dumps (up to a predefined limit). Does the current
>> initscripts provide similar functionality?
>> ...
>> Thank you. Any idea?
>
> The (very limited) LSB initconcept does not support this and you will have
> to use more advantageous methods like minit[1] or runit[2]. 'supervise' from
> djb's daemontools[3] might be an interim solution but it has a non-free
> license and can not be distributed therefore. I do not know if there exists
> a free implementation of it.

What about some of the High Availability stuff. I seem to remember there was some HA
stuff that could monitor ports or processes and restart them if required.

Peter