in reply to Control other processes

although i consider pc88mxer's suggestion the most elegant, maybe even a small shell script can serve the purpose:
#!/bin/bash for $PROC in daemon1 daemon2 daemon3 ...; do PID=$(ps aux | grep $PROC | awk '{print $2}') if [ $PID = '' ]; then $PROC &&; fi done
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