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?
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.
Why not use a shell script as a wrapper? If you don't put something in the background with an & on the line, the next line will execute when/if the program started on the current line exits. There are nearly always other copies of the shell running anyway so you get shared-text efficiency. If you just want to keep restarting the same program, something like this should run forever.
while : do my_program done