How to make sure an application keeps running on Linux

Question

I\'m trying to ensure a script remains running on a development server. It collates stats and provides a web service so it\'s supposed to persist, yet a few times a day, it

Answer 1

The supervise tool from daemontools would be my preference - but then everything Dan J Bernstein writes is my preference :)

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/supervise.html

You have to create a particular directory structure for your application startup script, but it's very simple to use.