cxumol / interval-restarter

restart your long-existing command every assigned time

Interval Restarter

In order to restart a background ever-green program after every assigned period, you set an interval (as time duration) for it.

It works on an Alpine linux x86_64 computer. Not sure if it's operational on other OS/shell, please help if there is any compatibility issues.

The following guide assumes your computer OS is a POSIX one.

How to install

run this in a terminal. Replace "0.0.4" with the latest version number.

wget -qO- https://github.com/cxumol/interval-restarter/releases/download/v0.0.4/intrvl-r_0.0.4_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar xzv && chmod +x intrvl-r

How to use

1. See ./cfg.yml.example for details about configuration
2. Create your own cfg.yml or rename & edit from ./cfg.yml.example
3. Run ./intrvl-r in your terminal
4. Speicify a configuration file like ./intrvl-r -c "./my_config123.yml", if cfg.yml is used by other programs or you want more than one config files to use.

Why not crontab / cron job

1. Cron job is based on the concept of calendar/clock, while this project is based on the concept of timer;
2. A typical minimal time unit of cron job is minute, while that of this one is nanosecond;
3. Cron job has a confusing working directory, while this one works under your current directory;
4. Cron job has a troublesome logging way, while this one prints all the logs directly to your terminal