dead simple service launcher

services.sh

#! /bin/bash

PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin

services=(cron syslogd)

start_service() {
  service=$1
  echo "$service is not running." >&2
  $service
  echo "$service started." >&2
}

for service in ${services[@]}; do
  pidof $service > /dev/null || start_service $service &
done