I have been using phoenix and cron to keep my IRC bots alive for some time,
however I never previously needed to see their output.
I actually wrote my own implementation of phoenix, before it was written.
http://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/stwalkerster/trunk/helpmebot.sh
it's not the best script, but it seems to work well enough. I just hit it
with cron every 5 minutes with the restart command, and it seems to work
well enough
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Regards,
Simon Walker
User:Stwalkerster on all public Wikimedia Foundation wikis
Administrator on the English Wikipedia
Developer of Helpmebot, the ACC tool, and Nubio 2 FAQ repository