On October 31, 2007 07:58:21 am VeeJay wrote: > Hello Gurus…. > > > > I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have > it *Always Running*. > > > > How can I check through CRON that "status.pl" is running and if NO, then > start the script execution again? > > > > Please help and advise… > > > > With a bundle of thanks!
You could write a shell script something like: #!/bin/bash ps -ax | grep 'status.pl' if [ $q -eq 0 ] then status.pl fi grep will return zero if it finds a line containing 'status.pl', and 1 otherwise. in crontab, use * * * * * /full/path/to/script-above and it will check every minute. But a better fix would be to find the bug in status.pl that makes it crash! -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
