Python Script for Mac to Check if a process is running. If not, restart and post a notification.

rescuetime_running.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Check to see if an process is running. If not, restart.
Run this in a cron job
"""
import os
import subprocess

# notification via osascript
# TODO: Is there a better way to do this? 
def notify(title, text):
    os.system("""
              osascript -e 'display notification "{}" with title "{}"'
              """.format(text, title))


process_name= "RescueTime" # change this to the name of your process

tmp = os.popen("ps -Af").read()

if process_name not in tmp[:]:
    print "The RescueTime is not running. Let's restart."
    """"Use nohup to make sure it runs like a daemon"""
    
    # message = process_name + " isn't running. Restarting!"
    notify("RescueTime is Down", "Restarting RescueTime now.")
    
    subprocess.call(
    ["/usr/bin/open", "-a", "/Applications/RescueTime.app"]
    )
else:
    print "The RescueTime is running."
    # notify("RescueTime is Running", "Nothing to report")