Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 02:39 am, Albert wrote:
> I want to write a bash script which can be executed by cron every minute to
> check if an application is running. If it is not running the script should
> start it again.
>
>  


Here's an example:

#
# NAME
#   keepup       - Keep demons up and running
#
# SYNOPSIS
#   keepup
#
# DESCRIPTION
#   If any of the following processes are down, then start them up
#   again.   This script can be run every few minutes from a crontab.

daemon="fetchmail"

   if ! ps -aux | grep $daemon | grep -iv grep
      then
                echo Restarting $daemon
                date
                /usr/bin/fetchmail -e 30 -f /etc/fetchmailrc
   fi