Detached process saver

[Jon Brinkmann]

I'm looking for a daemon that periodically checks for user's detached processes
and saves (i.e., dumps a copy of core) to the disk in a temporary file.  If the
system crashes or is shut down, it restores the last copy as a running detached
process belonging to the appropriate user upon reboot.  Ideally, a single program
would handle both phases of this process.  On startup, it checks for copies in
a specific directory and restores them to running condition and then goes on
to do the periodic core copy.

The motivation is obvious.  We have users that run detached process as 'batch'
jobs.  These jobs run for days and if the system goes down may hours of CPU time
are lost.

Can anyone help or point me in the right direction?

Jon

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