[meta-xilinx] Linux process monitoring

[Mike Looijmans]

On 28-09-15 23:03, Edward Wingate wrote:
> Just wondering what you guys use for process monitoring on Linux (e.g,
> restart webserver if it crashes).  I'm looking into supervisord (but
> wonder if supervisor is too much for embedded environment) or just
> cron scripts that blindly restarts every minute (where restart is a
> no-op if it is already running). Any others that I should look into?

Just simple sysvinit, inittab entry:

gui:3:respawn:/etc/init.d/demo-startup.sh

Gets restarted automatically, but if it 'crash-loops', it gets trottled down 
so you can log in and fix it.



Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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