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From: "Oleg M. Golovanov" <oleg@tpo.krasnoyarsk.su>
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>FreeBSD Users:
>
>Has anyone written a script to periodically check if a particular process is running, and if not, restart it?
>

Yes, I did.

You must to start from cron table a script which is making "ps ax" and
is analizing it.

But what you are interested in details ?

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