[Dxspider-support] unattended operation

[Dirk Koopman]

If it loops too fast then init will 'slug' the job after about 5
attempts. It will then sleep for about 5 minutes and try again.

It also puts messages into the system log whilst this is going on, along
the lines of "xxxxx is respawning too fast".

Also, if you are running X or you aren't really interested in the
console output (you can always watch this in realtime using 'watchdbg')
then: 

DX:23:respawn:/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" sysop >/dev/null

might be better. This redirects the output to the bit bucket. 

If you are running X then /dev/tty7 tends to be used as the X console
and won't start up with spider running on /dev/tty7. You can use any tty
you like instead (I use tty8).


Dirk G1TLH

On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 22:53, K1EA wrote:
> Tnx Bob. I worry about these respawn things, as things can loop fast if
> I break the installation.
> 
> I'll give it a try.
> 
> - Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxspider-support-admin at dxcluster.org
> [mailto:dxspider-support-admin at dxcluster.org] On Behalf Of Bob Nielsen
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 3:29 PM
> To: dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] unattended operation
> 
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:04:26PM -0500, Ken Wolff wrote:
> > Does anyone have an example of a cron job to automatically start
> spider
> > on boot and restart spider on a crash? I'm running Linux 2.4.8.
> 
> Somewhere (in the Spider docs, I think) I came across the following,
> which goes into /etc/inittab (not a cron job, but it does the trick):
> 
> ##Start DXSpider on bootup and respawn it should it crash
> DX:23:respawn:/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl"
> sysop >/dev/tty7
> 
> 73, Bob N7XY
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