Re: Connection problems

[Micah Anderson <micah@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Additionally, with less log overhead the following works:

while true; do offlineimap; done

:)


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Matthew P. Barnson wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:30:33AM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:
> > I often startup offlineimap when I startup, and just
> > let it autorefresh during the day. This works great, except when my
> > network connection dies, either because the wireless connection is
> > bad, or because the DSL goes down, or for whatever reason.
> 
> This is a common problem with my wireless link as well.  Though I'm certain
> it would be trivial to tell it to monitor itself in Python, I wrote a
> little Bash wrapper around it.  I run Mutt on Win32 using Maildir on a
> Cygwin managed-mount, so your mileage may vary as far as if the script
> works out of the box.  Should work fine on any Linux box, but if you're
> using Solaris or other operating systems with different options for "ps" or
> "grep", it may fail.  Just change the options to match your system.
> 
> Just copy the text below to a directory in your $PATH as any name you like,
> chmod 755 the file, and then run it.
> 
> ===============================
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> # A shell script to restart offlineimap if it dies.
> 
> OFFLINEIMAP=/usr/bin/offlineimap
> LOGFILE=~/offlineimap.log
> PIDFILE=~/offlineimap.pid
> 
> while [ 1 == 1 ]; do
>     if [ "`ps ax | grep -f $PIDFILE`" != "" ]; then
>          echo "offlineimap is still up @ `date`"
>     else
>         echo "offlineimap down @ `date`, starting it up."
>         $OFFLINEIMAP >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 &
>         echo "$!" > $PIDFILE
>     fi
>     sleep 60
> done
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew P. Barnson
> - - - -
> Thought for the moment:
> Advice to young men: Be ascetic, and if you can't be ascetic,
> then at least be aseptic.
micah

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