Anyone have a fix for bots crashing the server? (besides telling me to not use the bots).
If not does cortex have a way of automatically restarting a server if it crashes?

Must be a problem on your end. I have a server running with bots and it hassn't crashed in weeks. I would advise you double check your config and maybe do a reinstall of the game.

I thought Cortex ran games as a service or daemon and restarted them automatically if they went down?

There are some games that cortex just doesn't run good enough. For example UT2k4. It's missing half the game types, and their config doesn't even have the password field in it. I can't believe they diddn't add that to the cortex!!