Re: Starting X apps from cron


Subject: Re: Starting X apps from cron
bryan@ak.net
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 11:05:30 AKDT


On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 09:11:53AM -0800, Christopher Swingley <cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu> wrote:
>
<snip>
> I'm wondering
> if it's possible to run a cron job that looks for the presence of an
> xterm and / or mozilla, and if none is running, starts one up.

For that matter, isn't there a unix command that will start
a program, wait for it to die, and start another copy? It
seems I've heard of such a beast. Anyone know the name?

--
bryan

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