On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:30, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:23:15AM +0200, Jacob Larsen wrote: >> I have a script that I'd like to run as often as possible. >> The script may only run in 1 instance. >> My idea is to have a cron script to start it once every hour. The >> script should write a run file, and if the run file exists, exit. >> Is this the best way? > > Run it from init by putting an entry into your inittab. As soon as it > exits, init will respawn it. The upside is that there is no need to do > locking or process synchronization. The following inittab entry would > work. > > mysc:2345:respawn:/path/to/myscript
That runs the script as root, right? If you wanted to run it with as another user, would you just stick a bit of sudo in that inittab entry? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]