I demand that Patrick Gleichmann may or may not have written...
> The current program exit-codes:
> 0 = Help, signal (e.g. kill -HUP)
> 1 = Emergency exit
> 2 = Error during initialization (commandline, config, device...)
> At the moment I have a script, which sends a kill signal to leave the
> endless loop = end vdr. [...]
Make at least N attempts to start vdr and record the start time for each of
the last N attempts. Once N attempts have been made, if the oldest of these
is too recent, stop trying to restart it.
My runvdr does this (see .sig; you want vdr_1.3.44-2.diff.gz).
If you want to do this in shell then something like the following (untested)
should be adequate:
#! /bin/ash
# ...
START_1=
START_2=
START_3=
START_4=
START_5=
while :; do
START_1="$START_2"
START_2="$START_3"
START_3="$START_4"
START_4="$START_5"
START_5="`date +"%s"`"
# run vdr here
NOW="`date +"%s"`"
test $(($NOW - $START_1)) -lt 60 && break
done
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