Help Plz... Cron Job question....hellp...

[Michaël Grünewald]

VeeJay <maanjee at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Gurus….
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> I am running a status script written in Perl (*status.pl*) and want to have
> it *Always Running*.
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> How can I check through CRON that "status.pl" is running and if NO, then
> start the script execution again?

Why don't you use the following SH script?

  whule true; do
    perl status.pl
  done

It will restart `status.pl' whenever it dies.
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Best wishes,
Michaël