How to crontab screen with script inside and a "don't run it if it's already running" check?

[Jens Jahnke]

Hello Dwayne,

On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 10:59:09 +0200
Dwayne Henderson <its.code.in.here at gmail.com> wrote:

DH> Nice. But what to do if the machine reboots or whatever. Would you
DH> crontab your new Irssi alias?

I'm not sure. On my remote box I usually start irssi by hand because it
only ceases if the machine is rebooted. ;-)

The current alias itself would probably cause problems in
a crontab. But you could maybe wrap it into a modified if that only
calls the alias if the pgrep command returns an empty result.

Regards,

Jens

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