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Victor Rotanov wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Is there any way to restart a process after it dies?

Yes there is. Just run the command line with arguments as you would it
is normally done from init, rc, rc.local.

Example from my system.

/usr/local/bin/apache/src/httpd

Just like any other program.

> For example, if http server dies, it stops responding instead
> of just restarting.

I believe that you can find watchdog software that will check your
proccesses and restart them if needed. You might check it out.

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