On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Can anyone give me some idea on how I could start mprime on my linux 
> box during bootup and have it check to see if it is running periodically
> and restart it if it isnt?

On my smp linux box i wrote a script which checks via crontab if mprime is
running... (called: ipstart)

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#!/bin/bash
PID=`ps x | grep "mprime -A0" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
PID1=`ps x | grep "mprime -A1" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
if test "$PID" = ""; then
  date >> $HOME/mersenne/ips.log
  echo "wieder mal (0) gestartet" >> $HOME/mersenne/ips.log
  echo "---------------" >> $HOME/mersenne/ips.log
  $HOME/mersenne/mprime -A0 &> /dev/null & 
fi
if test "$PID1" = ""; then
  date >> $HOME/mersenne/ips.log
  echo "wieder mal (1) gestartet" >> $HOME/mersenne/ips.log
  echo "---------------" >> $HOME/mersenne/ips.log
  $HOME/mersenne/mprime -A1 &> /dev/null &
fi
exit 0
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in crontab i put:

*/30 * * * * $HOME/mersenne/ipstart &

so the script checks every half hour if mprime is running..

HTH
Michael
--
gruesse
Michael

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