Keeping a daemon running?

[Michael Hipp]

Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
>> I have servers with a couple of daemons that regularly seem to silently die
>> off. It would be great to have some tool that would detect this fault
>> condition and dutifully restart them. I know such things exist, was
>> wondering if anyone here could recommend something that does this?
>>
> daemontools is the way, at least if you mean "services" rather than
> daemons. If your service has an option of writing logs to stderr and
> not to put himself on the background, than that's it. You might want
> to have a look at www.thedjbway.org, which leads you by the hand.

I think of "services" as being a Windows term and "daemon" as nix. daemontools 
looks good, reading up on it.

That link to thedjbway.org doesn't seem to be working.

Thanks,
Michael