Occassionally my mysql database crashes and when I notice, I stop it and start it and the problem is solved. I've just made some changes to the config which I hope will stop the problem occuring in the future.

However, I have a watchdog script that checks my mod_perl server and stops and restarts it if necessary - I was wondering whether anyone knows of a similar script that I could use to check the mysql database?

Thanks,
Laura.
The UK High Street