Process watchdogging anyone?

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Hi !

I have Lighttpd and SCGI clusters running my applications. I
self-host at RimuHosting, but I find that my processes die sometimes.
I’m not a Linux administrator, so I simply want some kind of
watchdogging process to ensure my stuff keeps on truckin’.

I found Watchdog::Process on CPAN, but it won’t install. There’s some
kind of error. Launchd would be ideal, unfortunately, I’m on Debian.

Anyone has a good solution ? Maybe I should simply switch to FastCGI
and let Lighty handle the details ?

Thanks !

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On 20-jan-2006, at 17:42, Francois B. wrote:

Anyone has a good solution ? Maybe I should simply switch to FastCGI
and let Lighty handle the details ?

Supervise your processes (lighty and the responders separately) using
either daemontools or runit. See http://www.defendem.com/ for a
sparse explanation but great installation instructions. We don’t use
Debian so I can’t help you there.

–
Regards, Charles.

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2006/1/20, Charles M. Gerungan [email protected]:

Supervise your processes (lighty and the responders separately) using
either daemontools or runit. See http://www.defendem.com/ for a
sparse explanation but great installation instructions. We don’t use
Debian so I can’t help you there.

I get an “Application Error (Rails)” :frowning:

Thanks for the hints !

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On Jan 20, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Francois B. wrote:

Anyone has a good solution ? Maybe I should simply switch to FastCGI
and let Lighty handle the details ?

Thanks !

François Beausoleil
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Francois

Daedalus is a pure ruby daemon that monitors processes for you at

timed intervals and restarts them if they fail. I use it all the time
and it works great.

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