Lemme tell you want I want to do and I would appreciate a link to somewhere to learn about how to do it.

I am running SuSE 7.3 on a piece of crap, the only thing I want this box for is to be a Quake3 server. After about an hour or so Quake3 seg faults and that's the end of the quake server. I want to know how to make a script or something that would check to see if quake is running and if it isn't relaunch it. I was maybe looking a cron but that's not what I want, because it doesn't crash regularly I can't just restart it regularly. Any pointers, tips, or links would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I am running the box in console mode only and I can only SSH into it, otherwise I am sure there would be some kind of easier to use extensive help manual covering stuff like this, as it is going through man pages and stuff is slow in the going.

well... you could do a 'ps -C Quake' or whatever the running process is called and use the pid number you get to monitor it... for example, every hour (cron), you can check that this command returns a pid - if not, start quake again. i think 'ps -C quack -opid' will give you the number only.

One way is after the command in the script you can start the script again.
/usr/local/bin/quakescripton

#!/bin/sh
quake
date >> /var/log/quake
echo quake crashed >> /var/log/quake
sleep 20 #make sure it's dead
quakescripton