Running Scripts on Startup

PiKe · 14 Oct 2015 at 21:12

Hi, I'm running Debian and want to start pyomxplayer and make it automatically restart if it crashes or ends. What is the best way to accomplish this? Someone and suggested to me using a simple forever script but what is this?

JonJ678 · 14 Oct 2015 at 22:00

I'd guess they mean something like:

Code:

while true; do
./pyomxplayer
done

Periodically the program ends/crashes, then the loop just starts it again. Put the above in hash.sh then run './hack.sh &'.

The cleanest approach might be /etc/inittab.

PiKe · 14 Oct 2015 at 23:31

Thanks.

BusError · 15 Oct 2015 at 10:51

Make sure to add a 'sleep 3' or something in the loop, otherwise if your stuff ever crash on startup, you'll bring the box down by restart-looping it.

But yeah the 'right' solution is /etc/inittab

PiKe · 15 Oct 2015 at 11:00

So, how would you utilize /etc/inittab? Call the script from there?

Cromulent · 15 Oct 2015 at 13:43

daemontools seems like a much better solution than the one offered here. It'll manage a service so that if it crashes it'll automatically bring it back up.

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

Samanthap. · 11 Nov 2015 at 23:02

great help for all

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