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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Sodah <rsodah@index.com.jo>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: monitor process
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In the last episode (Jul 01), Sodah said:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have process that dies after 4 hours or more.
> Is it possible to monitor it and make it starts again
> in auto-mode without typing it at the prompt?

what I usually do is write a small wrapper script:

while : ; do
  brokenprogram
  sleep 10 
done

then I run that script instead of "brokenprogram".

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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