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Crontab; start a program if it is not running
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cron.start.if.not.running.sh
#!/bin/sh
if ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep program.sh ; then
exit 0
else
~/scripts/program.sh >> /dev/null &
echo "Restarting program.sh, it was not running." | wall
exit 0
fi
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