Linux automatically monitor and restart services when daemon is killed

Posted by nixcraft on Nov 25, 2006 5:05 PM
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When you cannot monitor your server for service availability, it is better to take help of automated monitor and restart utility...

Last 4 days I was away from my server as I was enjoying my vacation. During this time due to load my lighttpd webserver died but it was restarted automatically within 2 minutes. I had utility configured for monitoring services on a Linux system called monit. It offers all features you ever needed for system monitoring and perform error recovery for UNIX like system...

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