Nokia N900 - Meego Linux - xterminal - shell script - keep working

Question

I need a program in Nokia N900 - Meego Linux - so that it is always on, if it dies, it must restart by itself, how can I do it?

I would like to use it on 'x11vnc'

can also start the process again if it was killed by any other process by restarting again

Answer 1

Add your process to / etc / inittab and let init restart your process when it exits.

those.

mp:2345:respawn:/usr/app/bin/my_process 

See inittab (5) for more details.

(Credit is sent to Lew Pitcher, http://forum.soft32.com/linux2/process-alive-ftopict10675.html )

Answer 2

Using inittab, suggested by blinry, is good when you have root access.

If you do not have root access, you can run the shell on the screen and do this:

 $ while true; do run_program; done 

It is assumed that your "run_program" script does not fall into the background, otherwise the loop will contain non-resident instances of "run_program" for an indefinite period.

Answer 3

I ended up using daemon , which I installed from apt-get. It has the -r argument, which should restart my command if it dies. So my last command turned out to be:

 daemon -u www-data -n arbitrary_name -r -X "ffmpeg blah blah blah"