Re: restarting ffmpeg process

[Anthony Griffiths]

thanks, can you point me to a relevant example of such a pgrep script?

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Kevin Chadwick <address@hidden> wrote:

previously on this list Anthony Griffiths contributed:

> Is there a way that monit can monitor the ffmpeg process and run the
> command that restarts it?

I used to use a pgrep script which is better than a pid file in almost
all cases. monit has supported the same functionality for a couple of
years or so. Check the manual and usually using a start or end of line
regex is helpful.

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