Hi Tony,
Well an “init.d” script won’t restart the process if it crashes, while a “systemd” or an “upstart” script could restart the process. I think the scripts I saw on the forum were “init.d” here .
Having your start command in rc.local won’t restart the process if it crashes either.
To test it out simply kill the process with
kill -9 "your_pid"
and check if it restarts by itself.
Supervisor will monitor your process and restart it if it crashes, but that’s not the main reason I am using it - I was looking for a way to manage the processes remotely without ssh, My goal is to have a web page were I can change the ip and udp port of arducopter and restart the process through that. I don’t want to have to ssh on the field.