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Subject: Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz
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On October 31, 2007 07:58:21 am VeeJay wrote:
> Hello Gurus=85.
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> I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to ha=
ve
> it *Always Running*.
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> How can I check through CRON that "status.pl" is running and if NO, then
> start the script execution again?
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> Please help and advise=85
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> With a bundle of thanks!

You could write a shell script something like:

#!/bin/bash
ps -ax | grep 'status.pl'
if [ $q -eq 0 ]
then
  status.pl
fi

grep will return zero if it finds a line containing 'status.pl', and 1=20
otherwise.

in crontab, use

* * * * * /full/path/to/script-above

and it will check every minute.

But a better fix would be to find the bug in status.pl that makes it crash!




=2D-=20
Mike Jeays
http://www.jeays.ca