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

A nice, simple way to do this is as follows:

1. Write your server to die if it can't listen on the port it expects
2. Set a cronjob to try to launch your server every minute

If it isn't running it'll start, and if it is running it won't. In any case, your server will always be up.