I'dd suggest you look at monit. "monit is a utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs running on a Unix system. It will start specified programs if they are not running and restart programs not responding."
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/monit it is a quite popular tool for the kind of things you are considering :) cheers Joao On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 07:45 -0800, Toni S wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a debian package, which can do the following: > > - supervision of other background processes > - taking actions when the other background process dies (i.e. > restarting, starting recovery procedures, sending email, etc ... ) > > Is there another package doing similar things for files: > - supervising whether a specific file exists > - taking action when file is deleted > > I know all this can be solved by writing small (or large) > shellscripts, but I'd like to know whether there are useful existing > packages. > > Thanks for any help > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1297355053.2315.8.ca...@squeeje.critical.pt
