ForeverCore is a small utility written in .NET 5 to run an external process forever, allowing you to control the lifecycle via HTTP.
It works on any platform supported by .NET 5: Windows, Linux, macOS.
Here the steps to setup the utility using bash on Linux. On Windows is pretty similar.
- Download the release for your OS. You can find the release here. The app is self contained and you don't need any other dependency
wget https://github.com/Ricciolo/ForeverCore/releases/download/v1.0-alpha/ForeverCore-v1.0-linux-arm.zip
- Unzip the content into a folder
unzip ForeverCore-v1.0-linux-arm.zip -d ForeverCore
- Run the utility
chmod +x ForeverCore ./ForeverCore
The utility use .NET Core CLI usage style.
Usage: ForeverCore [options] [command]
Options:
-?|-h|--help Show help information
Commands:
start Run and monitor the process specified
Use "ForeverCore [command] --help" for more information about a command.
The only available command is start
./ForeverCore start "path to process to run and arguments"Options are:
- -r: number of retries. If the process crash, the utility restarts it automatically. Default value is infinite (zero)
- -p: port number where listen for HTTP commands. Default value is 6321
Assuming your are on the same machine where utility is running, call http://localhost:6321/[command] via GET (ex. using the browser). Commands are:
- stop: stop the process keeping the utility up and waiting for a new command;
- start: start the process again if you previously stopped it using the stop command;
- restart: force the process to stop and start again;
- exit: force the process to stop and the utility to quit.
The following is a tipical utility output:
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Ricciolo - ForeverCore
https://github.com/ricciolo/forevercore
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Listening commands on http://+:6321
Process started!
...Demo process output...
Terminated!
Process started!
...Demo process output...
Restart requested
Process started!
...Demo process output...