Finding out when a process has died
Bruce Rowen
browen at aoc.nrao.edu
Tue Oct 11 09:38:41 EDT 2011
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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