Help for respawning Process/Service in case of failure

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I have created a Init.d like:

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
# Example script
# Copyright (C) 2007 OpenWrt.org

START=99
  
start() {        
        echo start
        /usr/bin/php-cli -f /path-to-php-script
}

stop() {          
        echo stop
	    kill -9 $(pgrep -f NameOfPhpScript)
}

restart() {          
        echo restart
	    kill -9 $(pgrep -f NameOfPhpScript)
	    /usr/bin/php-cli -f /path-to-php-script
}

So far, so good the service starts up the script (which runs continious in the background).
But sometimes the Script (and the Process) dies and does not start again automatically.

So i thougt about a respawning process in /etc/inittab instead of init.d like:

::respawn:/usr/bin/php-cli -f /path-to-php-script

It starts the process at boot time as expected but:
It's starting very early in the boot process so the script cannot succesfully execute.
And it doesn't restart if i kill the process.

So i would be very happy for a sugestion, what i can do here to implement this in a good way.
Hint: Im still a Linux dummy :smiley:

Thanks!

2

Why not wrap it in a procd init script

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