Why not just find out why the service(s) stop. It's most likely happening during or after a log rotate and check by your nightly cron jobs. I'd start checking log files for any oddities. Do you know what service is not restarting or crashing? -----Original Message----- From: Hal Burgiss [mailto:hal@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:15 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Script to check if a service is running...restart if not On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:03:19AM -0700, John L wrote: > Good morning. I'm looking for an example of a script that I can run > as a cron job every five minutes that will check to see if a daemon > is running (named) and restart it if it is not. Rough, and untested ... service $service status &>/dev/null; [ $(echo $?) -ne 0 ] && service $service restart -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list