I know I saw something about this a couple of weeks ago, but I just can't find it!

Basically Apache kills itself every now and again. I'm not too sure why, but as I have to sleep sometimes I don't usually find out for a couple of hours.

I would like to be able to check using crontab every 5 minutes (or less) if apache is running and if it isn't too restart it. I know this isn't too complicated, but I'd probably make a mess of it!

Any ideas?

You might want to chech out Daemontools: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html .

Jake

It is probably not easy to run apache with daemontools.

If you want crontab solution try something like this in your crontab:

ps auwx | grep httpd || service httpd start

Originally posted by priyadi
It is probably not easy to run apache with daemontools.

If you want crontab solution try something like this in your crontab:

ps auwx | grep httpd || service httpd start
What exactly will that do?

Originally posted by blacknight

What exactly will that do?

List the processes, check if httpd is there,
restart if not. It's not the actual code however.

Thanks. I'm using a RAQ4, so I think the 'service' option might not work - or maybe I'm mistaken.
If anybody has a code snippet that does this I would really appreciate it, as Apache has a habit of killing itself from time to time...

Anybody?