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nixCraft: Monitor and Restart Apache or Lighttpd Webserver When Daemon is Killed

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“When you cannot monitor your server for service availability,
it is better to take help of automated monitor and restart utility.
Last 4 days I was away from my server as I was enjoying my
vacation. During this time due to load my lighttpd webserver died
but it was restarted automatically within 2 minutes. I had utility
configured for monitoring services on a Linux system called monit.
It offers all features you ever needed for system monitoring and
perform error recovery for UNIX like system…”


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