For now, I will leave my ssh window open - if you suddenly disconnect it means my SSH session timed out. This will be fixed permanently tonight
You might want to check out the program 'screen'.
I was doing this for a while but just have cronjobs to boot the services at start. I know have a cronjob restarting ppcoind every 2 hours =\
Every crash, pushpool is running but ppcoind isn't, so I'm not sure what's up