diff --git a/seahub/Dockerfile b/seahub/Dockerfile
index 2eb2681..c972efb 100644
--- a/seahub/Dockerfile
+++ b/seahub/Dockerfile
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ openjpeg \
 tiff \
 tk \
 mariadb-dev \
-libmemcached
+libmemcached \
+netcat-openbsd
 
 COPY --from=get /tmp/seafile-server*/seahub /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/seahub
 COPY --from=get /tmp/seafile-server*/runtime /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/runtime
diff --git a/seahub/scripts/start.sh b/seahub/scripts/start.sh
index e191a4d..dc4d8d6 100644
--- a/seahub/scripts/start.sh
+++ b/seahub/scripts/start.sh
@@ -1,16 +1,35 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-function start_seahub {
+function init_seahub {
     /scripts/create_data_links.sh
-    echo "{ \"email\": \"${SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL}\",\"password\": \"${SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD}\"}" | tee /opt/seafile/conf/admin.txt
-    #/opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/seahub.sh start
+    echo "{ \"email\": \"${SEAFILE_ADMIN_EMAIL}\",\"password\": \"${SEAFILE_ADMIN_PASSWORD}\"}" >/opt/seafile/conf/admin.txt
     python3 /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/check_init_admin.py
+}
+
+function start_seahub {
+    echo "Starting seahub..."
     python3 /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/seahub/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
 }
 
 function start_socat {
     mkdir -p /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/runtime
-    socat -d -d UNIX-LISTEN:/opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/runtime/seafile.sock,fork TCP:seafile-server:8001,forever,keepalive,keepidle=10,keepintvl=10,keepcnt=2
+    while true; do
+        socat -d -d UNIX-LISTEN:/opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/runtime/seafile.sock,fork TCP:seafile-server:8001,forever,keepalive,keepidle=10,keepintvl=10,keepcnt=2
+    done
+}
+
+function watch_server {
+    while true; do
+        if ! nc -z seafile-server 8001 2>/dev/null; then
+            echo "Seafile server is unreachable. Stopping seahub..."
+            pkill -f manage.py
+            while ! nc -z seafile-server 8001 2>/dev/null; do
+                sleep 1
+            done
+            start_seahub &
+        fi
+        sleep 1
+    done
 }
 
 function keep_running {
@@ -20,5 +39,7 @@ function keep_running {
 }
 
 start_socat &
+init_seahub
 start_seahub &
+watch_server &
 keep_running
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