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Monitoring running services and restart them if they stop working on Ubuntu.
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Monitoring running services and restart them if they stop working on Ubuntu.
To monitor running services and restart them if they stop working you can use Monit.

Here is the guide to install it:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/t...gure-monit

But for a basic install run:

Code:
apt-get install monit

My setup:

Code:
nano /etc/monit/monitrc

And edit:

Code:
set httpd port 2812
    use address 12.34.56.789 or monit.YourDomain.com # only accept connection from localhost
    allow 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0        # allow localhost to connect to the server and
    allow admin:*password*      # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'

And add this to the bottom of the file.

Code:
#Apache
Monitor
check process apache with pidfile /var/run/apache2/apache2.pid
    start program = "/etc/init.d/apache2 start" with timeout 60 seconds
    stop program  = "/etc/init.d/apache2 stop"
    if failed host YourDomain.com port 80 protocol http then restart

#MySQL
Monitor
check process mysqld with pidfile /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
    start program = "/etc/init.d/mysql start"
    stop program = "/etc/init.d/mysql stop"
    if failed unixsocket /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock then restart

Code:
service monit restart

Here is an example of Monit restarting Apache when it went down 7hrs ago.

   
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RE: Monitoring running services and restart them if they stop working on Ubuntu.
I can not over state how well this has worked for me.
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