Re: Run script as often as possible

From: Adam Funk (a24061_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/28/04

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    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? 

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