diff --git a/init/update-engine.conf b/init/update-engine.conf
index d3681db..ca54c4a 100644
--- a/init/update-engine.conf
+++ b/init/update-engine.conf
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 # The default is 10 failures every 5 seconds, but even if we crash early, it is
 # hard to catch that. So here we set the crash rate as 10 failures every 20
 # seconds which will include the default and more.
+respawn
 respawn limit 10 20
 
 expect fork