debian man page for multiwatch

multiwatch(1)						      General Commands Manual						     multiwatch(1)

NAME
       multiwatch - forks and watches multiple instances of a program in the same environment

SYNOPSIS
       multiwatch [options] -- <application> [app arguments]

       multiwatch -v

       multiwatch --help | -?

DESCRIPTION
       multiwatch is used to fork and watch multiple fastcgi backends.

OPTIONS
       -f, --forks=childs
	       Number of childs to fork and watch(default 1)

       -r, --retry=retries
	       Number of retries to fork a single child

       -t, --timeout=msecs
	       Retry timeout in ms; if the child dies after the timeout the retry counter is reset

       -?, --help
	       General usage instructions

       -v, --version
	       Show version

EXAMPLE
       Spawn 2 rails instances on the same fastcgi socket (and supervise them):
	       spawn-fcgi -s /tmp/fastcgi-php.sock -C 0 -n /usr/bin/multiwatch -f 2 /home/rails/public/dispatch.fcgi

SEE ALSO
       spawn-fcgi(1)

AUTHOR
       Stefan Buehler <stbuehler@web.de>.

								  March  24, 2009						     multiwatch(1)