Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
I have made a python script, that needs to constantly be doing some work, whenever the machine is running the script needs to be running, the problem is that sometimes it crashes from unpreventable reasons. In these situations I want it to restart.
I thought of making it a daemon, but I am not sure if it is an overkill or the correct thing to do.
(while true; do echo "$(date) hello world"; sleep 1; done) &
Or for your script:
(while true; do ./python_script.py; done) &
You can use monit tool. it's very small and useful for any type of process management and monitoring.
After Downloading binary package from this link, you can extract it to a folder on your system and then copy two files from the package to your system to install it:
cd /path/to/monit/folder
cp ./bin/monit /usr/sbin/monit
cp ./conf/monitrc /etc/monitrc
Now edit /etc/monitrc base on your needs(reference doc). then create a init control file to enable monit on startup. now start monit like this:
initctl reload-configuration
start monit
