You might consider using pidof to get the process id of the program once it is running and I enclose what I use for the speakfreely monitor -- this might be of help. #!/bin/bash secs=15 while true do sleep $secs if [ `pidof sfspeaker | wc -w` != 2 ] then #if there are not two sfspeaker processes aplay -q /usr/src/speak_freely/busy.au fi done on Monday 10/20/2003 Janina Sajka(janina at rednote.net) wrote > I have a command that starts a process. Should that process die whilst > I'm not at my computer, I want a script to restart it. > > How do I do this? What doc might I read that would provide examples? > > I presume I should launch the process so that it's pid is written to a > file, and then I can just test for the running pid? > > But, I don't know how to go forward with this, so would appreciate all > advice and direction. > > > -- > > Janina Sajka > Email: janina at rednote.net > Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Director, Technology Research and Development > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > http://www.afb.org > > Chair, Accessibility Work Group > Free Standards Group > http://accessibility.freestandards.org > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
