simplevisor-loop (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

simplevisor-loop – execute the given command in a loop

SYNOPSIS

simplevisor-loop [OPTIONS] COMMAND…

DESCRIPTION

By default, this program executes the given command in a loop, forever, until the command fails (i.e. return a non zero exit status).

It can optionally sleep between consecutive executions of the command (see the –sleep option) and stop after a given number of executions (see the –count option).

OPTIONS

–count, -c INTEGER

stop after having executed the command the given number of times

–daemon

detach simplevisor-loop so that it becomes a daemon running in the background; debug, warning and error messages get sent to syslog

–debug, -d

show debugging information

–help, -h, -?

show some help

–manual, -m

show this manual

–pidfile PATH

use this pid file

–quit

tell another instance of simplevisor-loop (identified by its pid file, as specified by the –pidfile option) to quit

–sleep, -s NUMBER

sleep during the given number of seconds between executions of the command; can be fractional

–status

get the status of another instance of simplevisor-loop (identified by its pid file, as specified by the –pidfile option); the exit code will be zero if the instance is alive and non-zero otherwise

AUTHOR

Lionel Cons <http://cern.ch/lionel.cons>

Copyright (C) CERN 2012-2016

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