From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-06-07T07:47:20+09:00
Subject: Re: can I keep re-running the same script?  how?

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:

>> 
>> 
>> sleep 180
>> exec ["ruby" + ARGV].join(' ')
>> 
>> -a
> In practice I would say this is a bad idea.  What if you start this on a 
> server and forget about it?  Then, some day down the road, the process starts 
> failing for whatever reason, and some poor admin is left wondering whether or 
> not it's safe to kill the process.  Call me paranoid.
>
> Better to figure out why it's failing under cron.  The most likely causes, in 
> my experience, tend to be environment variable issues and bad assumptions 
> about what Dir.pwd is.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan

dan is right of course.  i didn't say it was a good idea - but you can do it
;-)

-a
-- 
suffering increases your inner strength.  also, the wishing for suffering
makes the suffering disappear.
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