How to auto-restart a python script on fail?
- by norm
This post describes how to keep a child process alive in a BASH script:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/696839/how-do-i-write-a-bash-script-to-restart-a-process-if-it-dies
This worked great for calling another BASH script.
However, I tried executing something similar where the child process is a Python script:
#!/bin/bash
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.6
function myprocess {
$PYTHON daemon.py start
}
NOW=$(date +"%b-%d-%y")
until myprocess; do
echo "$NOW Prog crashed. Restarting..." >> error.txt
sleep 1
done
Now the behaviour is completely different. It seems the python script is no longer a child of of the bash script but seems to have 'taken over' the BASH scripts PID - so there is no longer a BASH wrapper round the called script...why?
