Bash - Auto restarter for Ventrilo every 24 hours.

[peec]

Hi , just wondering , ive searched around some now,

Im trying to make a bash script that restarts ./ventrilo_srv every 24 hours,
any good idea of how to ?

Its going to restart every day at 06:00 ^^

I know that this is very basic but ive just started php + mysql so i have to ask for this script Thanks in advance!

[peec]

Hi again, i forgot to tell you that im using SCREEN.

So is there a script that can restart my VT server every 24 hours?
automaticly..

[peec]

So anyone who know some basic bash scripting ?

If linux had GOTO i would have done it like this..



:startserver
echo "Starter Ventrilo server"
screen -A -m -d -S Ventrilo ./ventrilo_srv
#example for how long to wait until to goto the shutdown step.
sleep 10


:startshutdown
screen -r Ventrilo
quit
goto startserver

[likwid]

You should be using cron to do this.

[fatalexception]

You should be using cron to do this.

Yes. Add a cron job which restarts it every day at 6:00. That's actually what cron is for.

So anyone who know some basic bash scripting ?

If linux had GOTO i would have done it like this..



:startserver
echo "Starter Ventrilo server"
screen -A -m -d -S Ventrilo ./ventrilo_srv
#example for how long to wait until to goto the shutdown step.
sleep 10


:startshutdown
screen -r Ventrilo
quit
goto startserver

Gotos are generally considered evil, and I've never come across an instance where they were necessary. Here's a workaround:

while : ; do
    echo "Starter Ventrilo server"
    screen -A -m -d -S Ventrilo ./ventrilo_srv
    #example for how long to wait until to goto the shutdown step.
    sleep 10

    screen -r Ventrilo
    quit
done

Keep in mind the only thing I've changed is the labels and the gotos. It's now an infinity loop via 'while'.

[deadram]

Why not just a single executable file, restart_vento.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Stop vento?
echo "Stoping Ventrilo server"
screen -r Ventrilo

# Wait a while until we start it again
echo "Waiting a while..."
sleep 10

# Start vento
echo "Starting Ventrilo server"
# Assuming "screen" follows the general rules for return values of int main(...)
# the echo will only run when vetrilo is successfully started.
screen -A -m -d -S Ventrilo ./ventrilo_srv && echo "Ventrilo server started successfully."

Then in your crontabs, run restart_vento.sh every day at 6am