[stukdog]

We havea few servers running apps that should be ran all the time. Sometimes they'll crash and we'll get an alert and have to take over the machine to restart the app. It'd sure be nice to have some software that will check to be sure that an app is always running and if it is not running then it will start the app up automatically.

Does anyone have any suggestions on software that can do this?

[Mithras]

Applescript or a shell script will work.

in a shell script, just do

Code:
#!/bin/sh
while [ 1 ]; do
    /path/to/application.app/Contents/MacOS/appname
    sleep 5
done

That will launch the app, and if the app crashes, pause five seconds, then launch it again. To stop the loop, hit control-C in the terminal window used to run the script.