On 18/05/17 22:31, Martin Gregorie wrote:
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>> I would imagine a startup script could be inserted into teh init.d
>> system to, after the window manager stars up launch what apps in what
>> window arrangements are desirable
>>
> Yes, that would work, and you could use frequently executed cron jobs to
> detect that some application has fallen over and restart it, emailing yo
> an alarm if it fails more than 'n' times in a row.

Am I missing something here? What's wrong with each task being wrapped
in a trivial shell script that loops forever, eg:

while true; do xterm -e ssh myhost;  mail root -s 'ssh exited'
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