Re: Disowning CRON

[Dog and Pony]

in reply to Disowning CRON

Well, either fork off the process as soon as you've realized you need a new daemon, or simply start the script in the background, freeing it from cron.

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[daveime]

Many thanks to hardburn, zby, daeve, Dog and Pony !!

I'll try starting as a background from cron ... that seems the easiest solution.

Dave

[seaver]

If you're writing in a Linux box (i cant vouch for the other unixes) you can check out the list of start-up scripts in /etc/init.d.

A few scripts are written to be 're-startable', and will find and restart the process in question when run with the option '-restart'.

These scripts would give you a good idea of how they look for a process already running, in order to stop it, and start it again.

Sam