Try wrapping your script in something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

# Loop indefinitely
while (1)
{
    # Fork off a child process
    my $kidpid = fork();
    if ($kidpid)
    {
        # This is the parent process.  Wait for
        # the child to exit
        waitpid($kidpid, 0);
        
        # Put some code here to send you an alert
        # when the child dies.  You can also
        # check the child's exit condition here
        # with $?.
    } elsif (defined($kidpid)) {
        # This is the child process.
        # Put your original script in here
        # or just use exec()
    } else {
        die "could not fork";
    }
}
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That will fork off a child process to handle your script and restart it every time it dies

-Matt

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