Finding out when a process has died

[Bruce Rowen]

On Oct 10, 2011, at 9:27 PM, MK wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to write a process (hopefully userspace) which will "watch"
> other processes and do something when a process dies. What is a good
> way to do this? A simple solution would be to have a stream/tcp
> connection between the watcher and other processes and when the
> connection is broken, you know the other side has died. Is there a
> better way to do this possibly involving a kernel mod?
>
> Thanks!!
>

Check out http://mmonit.com/monit/

It has a lot of nice features and is turnkey if you don't want to  
'roll your own'

-Bruce

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