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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help scripting to start, check, and restart processes Post 302532696 by neutronscott on Tuesday 21st of June 2011 08:54:05 PM
Old 06-21-2011
Having screen as part of the equation at first seemed difficult for me. Then I read the manual...

Firstly, we create the crontab-able script which checks if the screen session is started.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
# chkscreen: checks if a screen session is running.
SESSION="server1"
DAEMON="screen -d -m -S $SESSION /home/mute/test/java-daemon.sh"

# does the session exist?
screen -r $SESSION -ls -q 2>&1 >/dev/null

if [ $? -le 10 ]; then
        echo "Restarting $DAEMON"
        $DAEMON
fi

Then java-daemon.sh is your while looping deal, which hopefully doesn't die since it'd restart your java faster than waiting for cron job.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
# java-daemon.sh: keeps restarting a buggy server... ;)

while true; do
./java
done

So then you'll place chkscreen inside of /etc/init.d/rc.local to start with the server, and inside of crontab.

mute@geek:~/test$ crontab - <<__EOF__
> */15 * * * * /home/mute/test/chkscreen
> __EOF__

Guaranteed to work on my machine!

Sorry I'm no guru myself but unless someone else replies this is what you're stuck with Smilie
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CRON(8) 						      System Manager's Manual							   CRON(8)

NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron) SYNOPSIS
cron DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'. Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). Cron then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each command to see if it should be run in the current minute. When execut- ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if such exists). Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has, cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab. SEE ALSO
crontab(1), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> 4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)
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