Are there any scripts out ther where you run it in the backround and it'll check every minute if apache is down
and if it is it'll run /www/bin/apachectl start

Does anyone have a script like this or knows where i can get one?

Stick this into your crontab, I have one like this but for BIND :D


ps auwx | grep -v grep | grep httpd || /www/bin/apachectl start

so basically all this does is see if any httpd instances are running and if they are not it tries to start apache...

Yes, it won't work if there is more than one instance of Apache running. For that, the test must be replaced by something like wget.

Should init be doing this sort of polling anyways?

Originally posted by Jackmaninov
Should init be doing this sort of polling anyways?

Yes, but it doesn't, unfortunately. Some 'inits' do this however, like daemontools' supervise.