watchdog processes

[barker at science.fau.edu]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:02:52PM +0000, Richard Worwood wrote:
> Does anyone know of a product or scripts I can use to periodically check
> that some key processes are running and restart as required?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Richard
> 

Take a look at monit.

 http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/

You can easily set it up to watch postfix, apache, squid, etc and it
will restart them if they fail or lock up.

It does a bunch of other things like check disk space as well.

It seems to work very well on many of our servers.

Peter Barker 
Florida Atlantic University