status check and start

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:38 am

i have had my home server change state to stopped. now im not sure if i did it and forgot etc, but can i cron a zm status start if stopped?

James

Post by **zoneminder** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:52 pm

I'm not sure what you mean by a 'zm status start', can you explain a bit more?

Phil

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:59 pm

ie check the status ir started or stoped
if stoped start it, so if for whatever reason its is currently stopped at say 5am it will start

James

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:47 am

This should do it, run from cron.

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$!/bin/bash
zmpkg.pl status |grep stopped && zmpkg.pl start

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:01 am

thanks Ross

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:35 pm

I think you can just do an unconditional start anyway, it shouldn't do any harm. Or of course a restart.

One day I'll learn the sequential shell command syntax!

Phil