Keep alive Bash script to check, log and restart a process

keep_alive.sh

#!/bin/bash

process_name="xxxxx"


if ! pgrep -x "$process_name" > /dev/null; then
        echo "The process $process_namen was not running at " $(date -u) >> ~/keep_alive.log
        ./xxxxxx  &
        echo "The process $process_namen was restarted at  " $(date -u) >> ~/keep_alive.log
fi
                                                                                                                                                                                                     

# crontab expression to run check every 5 mins
# */5 * * * *  ./keep_alive.sh >/dev/null 2>&1