[ale] Perl script to check process

[James Sumners]

Or get a little more robust --
https://bitbucket.org/jsumners/scripts/src/a5845b3071f0/screen_daemon.sh

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:50, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
> Does it have to be Perl?  It's simple enough to do in bash:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> while ((1)); do
>        if (ps -fe | grep -v "grep" | grep -P "\Wxboard\W??" >/dev/null); then
>                {your-start-invocation-here}
>        fi
>        sleep 30
> done
>
> Would need to refine that 2nd grep if you get more than one hit.
>
> Alternatively, create a pid file when you invoke xboard and grep for
> that pid.



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