[CentOS] centos command to monitor a process for exit
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.orgThu Jan 10 15:30:29 UTC 2008
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:22:56AM -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: > Is there a command that will monitor a process for exiting (crash or > normal exit) and then execute another command based on the said > process no longer being active? You can use SNMP to do this. It will set a flag in a certain OID which you then need to monitor. I _believe_ you may even be able to tell snmpd itself to call a process, but I don't recall on that. Check the man pages. > > Or is there a "wrapper" command that runs a process and when that > process exists due to crashing or just exiting normally) that another > process can be run. You might look into something like daemontools[1]. It might be a little overly complex. You could certainly script something yourself. However, daemontools are quite reliable. Ray [1]: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
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