Quick Script to monitor a process
There are numerous programs such as monit which are widely used as to monitor processes and take certain actions in case of different events.
Here is a little tip as to quickly monitor an service/process if you aren’t wanting to go through the hassle to configure monit
#!/bin/bash
r=$(ps cax |grep -c NAME_PROCESS)
if [ $r -eq 0 ]; then
service NAME_PROCESS restart
echo “NAME_PROCESS has crashed” | mail -s “monitoring SERVERID” your_Email_Address
fi
Save this as an executable, set up a cron and voila 
Good luck,
Categories: Bash, Programming, Unix / Linux