Re: Keeping an App Alive

FROM : Eric Blanpied
DATE : Mon Jul 31 20:01:42 2006

On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:16 am, Sherm Pendley wrote:

>> I'm writing a Cocoa app that needs to run 24/7, and it's looking 
>> pretty decent so far. Still, I'm thinking it would be prudent to 
>> have some way of making sure it's always going, and automatically 
>> restart it if it fails.
>>
>> Does anyone have advice on this?

>
> You could schedule a script (with cron or launchd, depending on the 
> OS version) to run every so often to check if it's running and if 
> not, start it with "open".
>
> Although frankly I'm not a big fan of such an approach. Blindly 
> restarting an app without first determining the reason it failed is 
> very rarely a useful thing to do. Quite often it will simply fail 
> again.
>
> sherm--


Thanks. I'm with you on that. I'd probably do something like send an 
email with the failure notification as well as relaunch the app, but 
the app's gotta keep going no matter what.

-e