Monitoring critical processes

[Chad Morland]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:31:58 -0600, Paul Schmehl <pauls at 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