--On Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:30 PM +0200 Magnus Hagander 
<mha at sollentuna.net> wrote:

> Couldn't you just run it under a shellscript that automatically restarts
> it? Something like:
>
> while [ true ]; do
>  /path/to/slon -commandline
> done

If I do that, won't it just start multiple instances of it?  Currently, I 
have a script that starts it and writes the pid to a pid file (actually, I 
flagged the slon to do that).  So I was thinking I need something that 
would monitor (1) the presence of the pidfile and (2) monitor that the pid 
in the pid file is still a process.