server need to restart

[andyvl]

I managed to create a working client/server environement. (in programming, tcp)

But now I want my uptime to be good.

There are 2 ways that my server can shut down. or the application crashes, or I ask it to.

In the first case, I want my server to restart itself. in the second it can stay off.

The total environement exists out of 4 processes. (only one can be manual shutdown)

but the 4 of them need eachother. So I created a 5th process that is constan checking if the 4 are still running.

but now I can't shut it down manually ofcourse.

So is there a way to fix this and how?

[BenSysAdmin]

Why can't to stop the watcher process?