respawn.1 (625B)
- .Dd February 2, 2015
- .Dt RESPAWN 1
- .Os ubase
- .Sh NAME
- .Nm respawn
- .Nd spawn the given command repeatedly
- .Sh SYNOPSIS
- .Nm
- .Op Fl l Ar fifo
- .Op Fl d Ar N
- .Ar cmd Op Ar args...
- .Sh DESCRIPTION
- .Nm
- spawns the given
- .Ar cmd
- in a new session repeatedly.
- .Sh OPTIONS
- .Bl -tag -width Ds
- .It Fl d
- Set the delay between invocations of \fIcmd\fR. It defaults to 0.
- .It Fl l
- Listen on the specified
- .Ar fifo
- for writes. For each write spawn a new instance of
- .Ar cmd .
- This can be used in conjunction with a process supervisor to restart a
- particular program. The
- .Fl l
- and
- .Fl d
- options are incompatible. All writes are discarded.
- .El