Application auto-restart?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 30, 2006, at 08:57, Drew Van Zandt wrote:

> Hi all...
>    A while back I recall someone mentioning a script / application that
> watched a process and restarted the app if it crashed... I'm having a 
> server

It probably wasn't mine, but you're welcome to it:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Watchdog::Process;
use Sys::Load qw/uptime/;

use strict;
use warnings FATAL=>'all';

# This is application-watcher.pl
# It watches for the applicationd daemon to crash, and if it does 
reboots the machine
# it won't reboot before 10 minutes of uptime to prevent thrashing
#
# Run it from root's crontab like:
# * * * * * /usr/local/sbin/application-watchdog.pl
#
# Copyright (c) 2005 BFC Computing, LLC <gpl at bfccomputing.com>
# Distributed under the terms of the GPL: 
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

my $VERSION = 0.01;

my $MINIMUM_UPTIME = 10*60; # seconds
my $SERVICE = 'applicationd';
my $PROCESS_STRING = '/usr/local/bin/applicationd -f 
/usr/local/etc/applicationd.conf';
my $FAILURE_ACTION = "/sbin/reboot";

my $process = new Watchdog::Process($SERVICE,$PROCESS_STRING);

if (!$process->is_alive && (uptime() > $MINIMUM_UPTIME) ) {
     system($FAILURE_ACTION);
}




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