Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:11:25 -0500 From: "Daryl Chance" <dchance@valuedata.net> To: "George Osvald" <mail@okstudio.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: crontab Message-ID: <012501c00c64$65028220$0200000a@development1> References: <000001c00c63$c5f77b40$99f438cb@gosvald>
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one way would be to pipe the pid to a file whn it starts (i think it can be done) and from there, add a check at the beginning to check the file, it it exists, exit();, at the end, rm the file. HTH, -------------------------------------------------------- | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | -------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Osvald" <mail@okstudio.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 1:07 PM Subject: crontab > Hello everyone! > > My ISP where I have my web page, is running freeBSD 4.0. I do not know a lot > about it. I know how to use crontab to start a script at certain time how > ever how do I use crontab to check on the script that is already running? I > have a long running script and restarting it when it is already running > doesn't make sense. That only produces a error message. > > to start it I would be using something like: > > 5 * * * * root ./start > > This would start the script every five minutes. Now how do I check if the > script is running after it's been started and if it wasn't to restart it > again. Can anyone help? > > Regards, > > George Osvald > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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