24 Oct
2007
24 Oct
'07
1:53 p.m.
"Matthew" matthew@somewhatunlikely.com wrote: [...]
Secondly, I really ought to have some mechanism to check on Apache (and MySQL) periodically and make sure they're running, either restarting them or alerting me (although I can be difficult to get hold of). What do people recommend for this? Is it as simple as having cron run a script to start the daemon if it's not already on the stored PID, or are there issues I should be wary of?
You can do it that way, but there are many pitfalls to beware and such auto-starters can make mild problems much much worse in some situations. Nevertheless, I think I often use monit for such tasks.
Hope that helps,
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