Emails myself when a process dies
 

Hallo,

First I just wanna say that LQ is THE BEST Linux forums on the whole WWW... If I had unlimited money, I would donate no question at all!

OKej, now my question. How do I mail myself if a certain process dies on my server? My mail server is with Google Apps.

Thanks!

Not enough detail. Process on which server? What is it running? What's it's OS? And then your email ISP is Google Apps?

Without enough detail to really know, I might suggest a cron job that runs every few minutes and checks to see if that process is running. If it is not, use a command line email such as mailx to send a mail to your address. Of course, your server needs to be configured so that it can do that.

The absolute easiest way would be to launch the process wrapped into a shell script, like this one:

This will send you an email each time a process dies with a non-zero status (which means it terminated with an error of some kind). I guess that's what you mean with "when a process dies". It won't send an email when the process ends without error or when it's killed by either you or init 6 (when halting your machine). But it all comes down to what do you mean by "die".

Say I have a process called PROCESS1 with a PID of 99999.

When It dies a email is sent to me. I use Google Apps.

Also, I use webmin... any easy ways?

easy way is what i92guboj quoted above or some sort of shell or perl script that checks every so minutes and if it doesnt find a process that matches a name - then sends an alert.

best way is set up some sort of monitoring system.

nagios, zabbix, open nms, there is a big choice.