Linux standalone startup (alternative way)

[DemoFreak]

Hi,

as I somehow managed it to kill the Subsonic server several times by accessing it via Flash player remotely, I wanted it to restart automatically.

Pragmatical solution: add the following line to /etc/crontab

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@reboot  yourusername  while /bin/true; do if ! pgrep -f '[j]ava.*subsonic' >/dev/null; then /usr/local/bin/subsonic/subsonic.sh --quiet; echo "Subsonic started..."|mail -s "Subsonic daemon (re)started" youremail@address.here; fi; sleep 15; done


The whole thingy has to be on one line, no line break allowed. Change the path to subsonic.sh, your email address and your username (the user account Subsonic should be running as) appropriately.

Pros:

- no initscript needed
- automatically starts Subsonic after reboot
- automatically restarts Subsonic after crash
- email notification about Subsonic restart

Cons:

- unusual way for daemon start
- you have to add all possible options on one line, that may be confusing as it get long enough

Of course you could get rid of the last point by creating a wrapper script, but we wanted to be pragmatic and not accurate, didn't we?

HTH,

/DemoFreak