Simon Willison’s Weblog

Running Processes. I’ve been searching for a good solution to this problem (“run this program, and restart it if it falls over”) for years. I’m currently using god which works pretty well, but according to this article I should be learning upstart instead. It never ceases to amaze me how difficult this is, and how obtuse the tools are.

# 2nd March 2010, 9:55 am / god, unix, linux, ubuntu, upstart, processes

god—process and task monitoring done right. I have a long running animosity towards every process monitoring tool currently in existence; I’ll have to put this one through its paces and see if it sucks less.

# 29th March 2008, 10:20 pm / processes, monitoring, ruby, god, sysadmin

killableprocess.py. “I have created a python module which can launch a subprocess, wait for the process with a timeout, and kill that process and all of its sub-subprocesses correctly, on Windows, Mac, and Linux.”

# 23rd December 2006, 12:23 am / python, processes