Re: is there a keepalive/retry/restart feature?

[abez]

I don't think that feature is needed in screen. 

Here's an alternative solution:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#exponrun.pl
my $wait  = 1;
for(;;) {
        system(@ARGV);
        $wait = ($?)?($wait*2):1;
        sleep $wait;
}

screen -t mutt exponrun.pl mutt

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Mordechai T. Abzug wrote:

> 
> Say I have the following in my .screenrc:
> 
> screen -t mutt mutt
> 
> If I accidentally exit my mutt process, I need to go through several
> steps to recreate the window, rename it, and create a new mutt
> process.
> 
> One fix is to do something like this:
> 
> screen -t mutt sh -c "while true; do mutt; sleep 1; done"
> 
> But I don't much like that.  For example, if the command is "ssh host"
> and host isn't defined, the command might fail many, many times before
> I noticed.  I would want some kind of exponential backoff, respawn
> limits, and the like.
> 
> Is there a better solution?  Preferably a flag to the screen command
> that automatically respawns the command if it exits, with configurable
> backoff behaviour.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Morty
> 
> 
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