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naive_alive_check.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Start the first process
./my_first_process -D
status=$?
if [ $status -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed to start my_first_process: $status"
exit $status
fi
# Start the second process
./my_second_process -D
status=$?
if [ $status -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed to start my_second_process: $status"
exit $status
fi
# Naive check runs checks once a minute to see if either of the processes exited.
# This illustrates part of the heavy lifting you need to do if you want to run
# more than one service in a container. The container exits with an error
# if it detects that either of the processes has exited.
# Otherwise it loops forever, waking up every 60 seconds
while sleep 60; do
ps aux |grep my_first_process |grep -q -v grep
PROCESS_1_STATUS=$?
ps aux |grep my_second_process |grep -q -v grep
PROCESS_2_STATUS=$?
# If the greps above find anything, they exit with 0 status
# If they are not both 0, then something is wrong
if [ $PROCESS_1_STATUS -ne 0 -o $PROCESS_2_STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
echo "One of the processes has already exited."
exit 1
fi
done
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