Comments on: Automatically Restart Crashed Apps

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:56:27 +0000

What if Application Monitor crashes? :P

Well, you're screwed.

Why? Most programs that are worth running are either stable enough to not need this, or run as a service and recover on their own. The only thing I can think of that this would work on is some game servers, but even this wouldn’t fix those occasions where the server hangs and the process doesn’t ever get killed.

Yes and no. I've had some BitTorrent applications crash on me when dealing with extremely large files. And it's frustrating to have left it alone to download for an entire day, just to realize later on that it crashed shortly after starting.

Deadlock wrote:

Here’s a simple shell-script which does virtually the same.

Nice script... thanks for the info.

By: Deadlock

Deadlock — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:32:23 +0000

Here’s a simple shell-script which does virtually the same.
Choice.exe from NT/W2K/W2K3-Ressource Kit is needed.

@echo off

:loop

REM ***
REM *** Start application
REM ***

start /wait notepad.exe

REM ***
REM *** Application ended.
REM *** Give user chance to abort the loop for 30 seconds
REM ***

choice /T 30 /C YN /M “Notepad ended. Restart? (Y in 30 seconds)” /D Y

REM ***
REM *** No choice given or pressed ‘y’
REM *** Restart application
REM ***

if %errorlevel%==1 goto :loop

REM ***
REM *** Choice ‘n’ given
REM *** Loop ends here
REM ***

By: Ian Cammarata

Ian Cammarata — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:04:18 +0000

Why? Most programs that are worth running are either stable enough to not need this, or run as a service and recover on their own. The only thing I can think of that this would work on is some game servers, but even this wouldn’t fix those occasions where the server hangs and the process doesn’t ever get killed.

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:58:02 +0000

M1ke wrote:

What if Application Monitor crashes?

Someone had to say it…

There’s an application monitor monitor…ummm, application

By: M1ke

M1ke — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:16:35 +0000

What if Application Monitor crashes?

Someone had to say it…

By: Victor V.

Victor V. — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:53:19 +0000

Some years ago I was working on this game server, and sometimes it would crash. However, there was a file in which you would open it by, instead of the .exe, called Restarter.bat, and it would automatically restart it, in case it crashed and closed.

I can’t remember the command, but it’s pretty easy and should be easy to find on Google.