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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:38:11 -0500
From: Chad Morland <cmorland@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:31:58 -0600, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, Nick.  I knew of nagios, but I was not aware that it was capable of
> restarting stopped services.

Nagios is able to restart stopped services. I currently use it to
monitor my network. You can create plugins for Nagios that will run
after a certain set of conditions have been met. I'm not sure if this
is completely documented but you may want to search the nagios list
archives.

-CM