On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 16:36, Jim Archer wrote:
> --On Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:30 PM +0200 Magnus Hagander 
> <mha at sollentuna.net> wrote:
> 
> > Couldn't you just run it under a shellscript that automatically restarts
> > it? Something like:
> >
> > while [ true ]; do
> >  /path/to/slon -commandline
> > done
> 
> If I do that, won't it just start multiple instances of it?  Currently, I 
> have a script that starts it and writes the pid to a pid file (actually, I 
> flagged the slon to do that).  So I was thinking I need something that 
> would monitor (1) the presence of the pidfile and (2) monitor that the pid 
> in the pid file is still a process.

FYI, someone on this list has recommended daemontools in the past...  I
think this is what they were talking about.

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html