KickStarter 0.4 review

Kickstarter is a small program to lauch indefinitly a program

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 9K Developer: Matteo Lucarelli

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Kickstarter is a small program to lauch indefinitly a program. Can be useful where cron's resolution is not sufficient. Without -f flag the process runs in background (daemon).

Installation:

Unpack the archive: tar xzf kickstarter0.4src.tgz
Enter in extracted folder: cd kickstarter0.4src
Compile: make
Copy the executable in the path: cp ./kickstarter /usr/local/bin/

Options:

kickstarter [options] commandn
-h --help Display this usage information.
-V --version Display version informations.
-v --verbose Explain what is being done.
-s --sleep SEC Sleep SEC seconds between cycles (default=1)
-d --directory DIR Set DIR as working directory (cd)
-f --foreground Stay foreground
-p --savepid FILE Save pid on FILE

command must include path, with argument must use ""