10.5: Automatically restart a crashed program

December 19th, 2007 | Category: Apple / Mac

This older hint described a method by which to auto-restart a crashed application automatically by monitoring the crash log for the app. that was done by watching the log file with a LaunchAgent.

As WCityMike notes in this forum thread, Leopard writes multiple crash logs with a duration and time-stamp in the filename for each crash, rather than appending

to one log file as in Tiger. For example:

~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/gimp-2.2_2007-12-10-100248_G4.crash
~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/gimp-2.2_2007-12-10-091933_G4.crash
etc...

So watching a separate file will not work in Leopard. Read on for my solution.

I wanted to keep true to the original tip and use Lingon to create the LaunchAgent (launchd) plist file, and …

Original post by Michael Rose

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