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Ever want to run a permanent restarting service on a Unix machine as a non-root user?
I often use a screen + cron recipe to run long-lived processes where cron checks to see if it's running, restarting it if it isn't, and screen provides a handy detached interface to stdin/stdout etc.
So, let's call this service "service1" and make cron run a script every five minutes to check that it's OK...
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /home/michael/service1/check