#!/bin/sh # periodically check if daemon is running # if not: # 1. kill former tail processes # 2. start daemon and wait 5 seconds for startup of logging # 3. tail new logfile while true; do pgrep raumsrvDaemon 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "$(date "+%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S.000") Process missing in action. Starting or restarting raumsrvDaemon."; pkill tail 2>/dev/null; /opt/raumserver/raumsrvDaemon && sleep 5; new_log=$(ls -t /opt/raumserver/logs/*.log 2>/dev/null | head -n 1); [ -n "${new_log}" ] && tail -f $new_log & } sleep 5 done