On Fri, 19 May 2017 09:28:34 +0100, Mike Scott wrote:

> On 18/05/17 22:31, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> ....
>>> I would imagine a startup script could be inserted into teh init.d
>>> system to, after the window manager stars up launch what apps in what
>>> window arrangements are desirable
>>>
>> Yes, that would work, and you could use frequently executed cron jobs
>> to detect that some application has fallen over and restart it,
>> emailing yo an alarm if it fails more than 'n' times in a row.
>
> Am I missing something here? What's wrong with each task being wrapped
> in a trivial shell script that loops forever, eg:
>
> while true; do xterm -e ssh myhost;  mail root -s 'ssh exited'
> 
That looks a bit aggressive: shouldn't it check that the process has in
fact crashed before restarting it?




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