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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz
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In response to VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com>:

> Hello Gurus….
> 
> 
> 
> I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have
> it *Always Running*.
> 
> 
> 
> How can I check through CRON that "status.pl" is running and if NO, then
> start the script execution again?
> 
> 
> 
> Please help and advise…

Have you considered something like daemontools?  It's designed for such
a task, as opposed to reinventing the wheel.

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Bill Moran
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