[Zope] Using crontab instead of rc.d

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:46:11AM +0000, Stephan Goeldi wrote:
> >5	*	*	*	*	root	./start
> >
> >This would start the script every five minutes. Now how do I check if the
> >script is running after it's been started and if it wasn't to restart it
> >again.
> 
> Why don't you write a shell script which
> 
> 1. starts the ./stop script, and
> 2. starts the ./start script
> 
> every 5 minutes? So you don't have to check if Zope runs. It's like a 
> restart.

That would be very intensive on the server.  Imagine if your office file
server was set to reboot every 5 minutes, "just in case".  It's far
better to just check if it's dead and only then restart it.

-Dom