Core dumps & restarting (fwd)
Marko Siladin (msiladin@athos.mas.vcu.edu)
Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:02:52 -0500 (EST)
Forwarded message:
>
> Hi!
>
> I was wandering how to stop a process, reboot the machine, and
> restart that process. Is there a way to provoke a program to dump
> itself, and restart it after the reboot?
>
> Maybe we can define a new executable format for it to work ;-)
>
Although this is not really kernel related - you could just run
a crontab job every so often that checks if the process is still
alive and if not reboots the machine (or restarts it)
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