[solved] seeking way to use the terminal to re-launch app

[HelloIndustries]

Hi all.

I use LottaNZB but find it crashes a LOT. My current work-around is to launch it via the terminal and then re-launch it by simply hitting [up key] then [enter] rather than digging around the menus each time, and that can be quite frequent depending on how it's feeling at the time.

I'm hoping there's an automated way to re-launch the application if it crashes out so i don't need to babysit the damn thing.

Cheers.

[Odd0002]

You could make a shell script that you run and that restarts the process automatically like this:

Open a terminal and do:

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gedit restart.sh

Then put the following in the file:

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#!/bin/bash
while true
do
(enter command name here)
pid=`pidof -s (command name)`
wait $pid
sleep 5
done

To make it executable, in the terminal do

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chmod 755 restart.sh

Then run it by doing

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./restart.sh

in the terminal.

Hope this works for you, since it worked for me with Firefox.
If you ever want to stop it, then just press Crtl+C in the terminal that's running the file.

[HelloIndustries]

You could make a shell script that you run and that restarts the process automatically like this

Thanks
Seems to be working fine so far.

MUCH appreciated!

[Midnighter]

Wouldn't it make more sense to ask for help finding out why it keeps crashing so much?

[HelloIndustries]

Wouldn't it make more sense to ask for help finding out why it keeps crashing so much?

The reason it keeps crashing is a known bug and will hopefully be fixed soon.