* Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
Perhaps svscan and its associated daemontools programs could be
used to monitor the script instead of relying on cron.
Just a note: The above suggestion would assume you control the box, and
that you're running on a *nix system (i.e., you've got root on a linux,
bsd,
I have a command line script that needs to run continuously, and so I plan
to have cron execute it every so often. I want to have the script first
check to see if another instance is already running and, if so, die().
Now, I know I can exec the process list and parse through the output, but is
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:49 -0400, Jim Moseby wrote:
I have a command line script that needs to run continuously, and so I plan
to have cron execute it every so often. I want to have the script first
check to see if another instance is already running and, if so, die().
Now, I know I can
André Medeiros wrote:
Do like some services do:
1) Check if script.pid exists
2) If it doesn't
2.1) Write the process's PID onto the file
(http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.getmypid.php)
3) If it does
3.1) Die gracefully :)
Personally I'd extend that slightly to have the process touch the
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:09 +0100, Stut wrote:
André Medeiros wrote:
Do like some services do:
1) Check if script.pid exists
2) If it doesn't
2.1) Write the process's PID onto the file
(http://pt.php.net/manual/en/function.getmypid.php)
3) If it does
3.1) Die gracefully :)
Perhaps svscan and its associated daemontools programs could be
used to monitor the script instead of relying on cron.
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
On 8/2/05, André Medeiros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:09 +0100, Stut wrote:
André Medeiros wrote:
Do like some
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