From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-04-14T12:17:26+09:00
Subject: Re: making a persistent daemon?

From: "Ezra Zygmuntowicz" <ezra@yakima-herald.com>
>
>      I've written a small ruby script that runs on a colocated  
> server. Every 20 minutes this program will ping our in house server  
> and pull the headers and top of the index page on our website. If  
> these tests fail I send emails and text messages to a few people.  
> Just a basic monitoring app. My question is what is the best way of  
> making this monitor a persistant daemon that will respawn if it quits  
> for any reason. Sould I just use a cron job? Even if a cron job is  
> best for this app I would still like to know the preferred way of  
> making a persistant ruby daemon.

Maybe of use?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/52d1b0d714c965f3


Regards,

Bill