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

Jens Jahnke jan0sch at gmx.net
Sat Jun 2 12:39:09 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 14:08:49 +0200
Dwayne Henderson <its.code.in.here at gmail.com> wrote:

DH> Any comments on this though?
DH> 
DH> */10 * * * * lockf -t 0 /home/anonymous/.myscript.lock
DH> /usr/local/bin/screen -dm /home/anonymous/.rvm/rubies/
DH> ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/ruby /home/anonymous/myscript.rb

looks quite okay but as the manpage suggest I would add "-k" to lockf.

Regards,

Jens

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