Peña, Botp
4/14/2005 3:35:00 AM
Ezra Zygmuntowicz [mailto:ezra@yakima-herald.com] wrote:
# I've written a small ruby script that runs on a colocated
#server. Every 20 minutes this program will ping our in house server
#and pull the headers and top of the index page on our website. If
#these tests fail I send emails and text messages to a few people.
#Just a basic monitoring app. My question is what is the best way of
#making this monitor a persistant daemon that will respawn if it quits
#for any reason. Sould I just use a cron job? Even if a cron job is
#best for this app I would still like to know the preferred way of
#making a persistant ruby daemon.
# Thanks in advanced for your responses.
*nixism..
man init
man inittab
see respawn there..
kind regards -botp
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#-Ezra
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