> On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 11:41, elemint@cox.net wrote:
> > I am running Debian sid and have a startup script that I want to start
> > at every reboot the only problem is that it is a program that needs to
> > stay running not just execute once and then exit.  What is the best
> > way to achieve this?  I have read through several of my reference
> > books and also tried Google but no luck.

I think what you're asking is how to make sure that a process is always 
running - even after it dies for whatever reason.

Do a google search for a little program (I think it's on freshmeat) called 
"process_checker".  I use it on my webservers to make sure that apache is 
always running.