Restarting AOLserver when it crashes is trivial, just run it from
/etc/inittab. Or use Daemontools, which is a different
and more modern way to accomplish basically the same thing. inittab
is simpler, and all Unix systems have it. Daemontools is more
flexible.
Crontab is of course a good way to schedule a periodic keep-alive job
to check that your AOLserver is not wedged. If AOLserver is wedged,
the keepalive script merely kills AOLserver, which init or Deemontools
then restarts.
Isn't this all in the OpenACS install docs? I thought it was, and
hope it is.
Periodically restarting an AOLserver which is performing normally
shouldn't really necessary, but if you want to do it just call
ns_shutdown from within AOLserver.
