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  • Not that I can think of. init typically knows when to restart it because it started it to begin with and gets a signal when it terminates. I don't know of a way to have it monitor some "other" process. Commented Jun 25, 2018 at 16:57
  • The respawn in inittab will always run it on boot. I don't think that solution is going to yield the results you want. I'd take a look at possibly doing something with supervisord or GOD. Commented Jun 25, 2018 at 22:47