[lug] linux process supervision

[D. Stimits]

"Ferdinand P. Schmid" wrote:
> 
> HI,
> I wrote some scripts and a C++ application for one of my systems that I
> would like to keep running at all times.  During my tests for running these
> processes in the background I found that for some reason they sometimes go
> away (crash or die).  So here is my question:
> 
> Services that are started out of inetd are watched out for by inetd (same
> thing for tcpserver).  So if they crash or die inetd restarts them
> immediately.  Is there a facility in Linux that I could use to take care of
> my own basic processes that are note internet related?  I would of course
> like to do this in a way that is not considered bad style - if there is
> such a thing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ferdinand
> 

Someone else already mentioned respawn. You will probably also be
interested in "nohup". Some shells have their own built-in of this, but
there is also a literal command nohup.