Re: keeping a process running?

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com):
> on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:09:04AM -0500, Michael A. Miller (mmiller3@iupui.edu) wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest a way to monitor a process and restart it if
> > it stops?  I seem to remember some discussion about this on
> > debian-user, but I haven't been able to track it down in the
> > archives.
> 
>     while :
>     do
>         <stuff>
>     done

I think the discussion concerned using inittab, and was more
specifically about whether it was easy to change the ownership
of such processes from root (if that helps find it).

Cheers,

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