check for crash?

[Israel Brewster]

I'm wondering if anyone can give me suggestions as to how to monitor a  
specific process to make sure it keeps running properly. The specific  
issue I have is that I have a Java Webstart applet running on OpenBSD  
4.4 that, from time to time, randomly crashes. I can't just use  
check_process (I don't think so, at least) because when it "crashes"  
the process never actually exits- it just stops working. I have to go  
in and manually kill it before I can restart it. Does anyone have any  
thoughts as to how I could check for this situation? I realize this  
may not strictly be a nagios question, and I apologize to anyone who  
is bothered by that, but since I would be doing the monitoring with  
Nagios this seemed the most logical place I could think of to ask.  
Thanks!

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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service Inc.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
(907) 450-7250 x293
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