If a process is killed with sigkill, how do I get it to work again?

Question

I have a process that other processes are trying to kill, and if they succeed, how can I make sure that the process starts again?

Answer 1

Check inittab . Look for respawn :)

The process will restart when it finishes.

Here is an example from my own inittab:

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty1 linux

c1- this is id (must be unique), 2,3,4,5- these are the runlevels to which this applies, respawn states what I said earlier, and the rest is a command. There you can simply add your team and it should work well.

Answer 2

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Answer 4

Some versions of Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) prefer /etc/event.d over inittab. This is a similar concept, but a different implementation.

Answer 5

You could always pull the Robin Hood / Brother Tuk thing, but these days you can kill both processes at the same time.