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in reply to Check if a process is running on Windows

One solution comes to mind.

Write a script that launches the critical script, and does something when it is no longer running.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print "script started!\n"; my $result = system "critical.pl"; # if it comes here, then the script has died. print "critical.pl is no longer running. (Exit code $result)\n"; #perhaps add code to send a mail to your address