I want to start a script each time I boot my Suse 10.0 box. The script launches Icecast and mpg321 (which plays a local Icecast stream). Currently I'm using /etc/init.d/boot.local to accomplish this.

My problem is that if the stream drops out momentarily, mpg321 quits. What are my options for having mpg321 attempt to reconnect to the stream infinitely? Also, I want to ensure that Icecast is always running.

My first thought was to create a cron job that checks for these processes every minute but wasn't sure that was the best or easiest way to handle this.

Thanks,

Andy

there a number of different ways you can run this through, about the most hardcore that could be justified is setting mpg321 as a shell for a dedicated user on one terminal, so when mpg321 quits, the login session ends and logs in again, pretty simple to do, but hopefully too drastic. a more rational solution would probably be to just turn the mpg321 command into an infinite loop where it already is: just put a small pause before it restarts to stop things potentially getting ugly.

Thank you! That did the trick. Should I do the same for icecast?