OpenOffice Daemon Problem

I'm using OpenOffice as a daemon. Sometimes, when the daemon is running a long time, CPU use spikes very high and then openoffice crash. At this point, the open office applicattion don't work and the documents don't be generated.

How can I restart automatically the openoffice daemon when this problem happens? Is there any way to monitor the service or to program a watchdog to handle it?

Th开发者_运维问答anks in advance, regards.

You may wish to use your distribution's services mechanism; Ubuntu and Fedora, for example, use upstart. Writing an upstart configuration file for your service probably wouldn't be too difficult.

If your distribution doesn't use upstart, you could either run it directly out of your /etc/inittab or use daemontools to monitor your service. (The linux-ha project also has some service monitoring tools, but may have more setup-requirements than you're interested in.)