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

It's even simplier:

#!/bin/bash

export DISPLAY=:0

process=processname
makerun="/usr/bin/processname"

if ! pgrep $process > /dev/null
then
    $makerun &
fi

You have to remember though to make sure processname is unique.