rudimentary daemonize (push a command through an infinite loop)

sorta-daemonize.sh

#! /bin/bash

##  Daemonizes $1 (calls it in an infinte loop)
#
#   If you need to pass arguments to the executable pass freely after the command
#   eg:
#   /usr/local/sbin/sorta-daemonize  echo  -e "\thello"

LOG="/var/log/sorta-daemonize.log"

#basic validation
[ $# -lt 1 ] && { echo "you must call this with a valid program/script as a parameter" > $LOG; exit 1; }
type $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo `date`" Error: $1 does not exist or is not executable.  Aborting." > $LOG; exit 1;}


while [ true ]
do
    $@
    sleep 5
done

exit 0