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I assume this was in response to "Really, we should just use a proper process manager, but that probably won't happen soon".

Yes, like systemd. Our servers even run systemd already!

Sadly, we don't have root on our servers, and user-level service support is broken on CentOS 7:

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8767

Maybe i could install another process manager of my own, and start it from cron. That really doesn't sound like fun, though. Is there a simple process manager which i can install and use without root privileges, and which won't make me restructure my whole deployment process?