Re: Looking for a watchdog for background processes and files

[Joao Ferreira gmail <joao.miguel.c.ferreira@gmail.com>]

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
> 
>