Simplest way to respawn configured number of instances of a specific process.

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Published on 2010-05-19T09:54:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 10:02 UTC
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So we have an app. which we wan to run multiple instance of it in linux. The number should be configurable. We also want that whenever one of the instance disappears, a new one is booted up.

I was looking into C based programs, shell script, python script etc. but I was wondering what would be the most simple, easiest way to do it. Are there any tools out there? Can one simply use some linux built-in functionality?

Linux distribution is Red Hat.

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