Re: Looking for a watchdog for background processes and files

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

Looking for a watchdog for background processes and files

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 fi