ecraft-watchdogservice
A generic watchdog Windows Service for keeping processes running 24/7.
If a process dies for whatever reason (out of memory, segmentation fault etc), the watchdog service will detect this and automatically restart the process. An arbitrary number of processes can be controlled using a single watchdog service.
Each process will have its own log file, which is rotated daily (the year, month and date is included in the log file name). To avoid running out of disk space, old log files are deleted every time the service starts. (Note: if the service is never restarted, this means that old logs will be kept indefinitely.)
Configuration
The service is configured with a file called run_config.xml which is expected to be located in the same folder as the watchdogservice.exe file. A somewhat outdated file can be found in eCraft.appFactory.appFactoryService/run_config.xml
Installation/uninstallation
The service has built-in support for installing itself as a Windows Service. Use the commands below from an Administrator/elevated command prompt:
watchdogservice /i [env]
wwatchdogservice /u [env]The env is optional; ifused, it will be appended to the service name installed. This is useful if you are running multiple environments on the same machine.
Starting the service
net start ecraft_watchdog
net stop ecraft_watchdogIf you used the env option above, the name is instead ecraft_watchdog_<env>.