I don't think that feature is needed in screen.
Here's an alternative solution:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#exponrun.pl
my $wait = 1;
for(;;) {
system(@ARGV);
$wait = ($?)?($wait*2):1;
sleep $wait;
}
screen -t mutt exponrun.pl mutt
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Mordechai T. Abzug wrote:
>
> Say I have the following in my .screenrc:
>
> screen -t mutt mutt
>
> If I accidentally exit my mutt process, I need to go through several
> steps to recreate the window, rename it, and create a new mutt
> process.
>
> One fix is to do something like this:
>
> screen -t mutt sh -c "while true; do mutt; sleep 1; done"
>
> But I don't much like that. For example, if the command is "ssh host"
> and host isn't defined, the command might fail many, many times before
> I noticed. I would want some kind of exponential backoff, respawn
> limits, and the like.
>
> Is there a better solution? Preferably a flag to the screen command
> that automatically respawns the command if it exits, with configurable
> backoff behaviour.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Morty
>
>
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