flowstart - a keep-alive script for cflowd

From: Chas Wareing (c3w@isp.net)
Date: Sun Oct 22 2000 - 20:32:52 PDT

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    Here's a script to start/restart your cflowd binaries when they die
    and log it. runs via crontab. tested on openbsd 2.7

    available at http://c3w.org/source/cflowd/ and I've attached it below-

    Chas. <c3w@ISP.NET>
    ISP Networks, Inc.

    #!/bin/ksh

    ###
    ## FileNAME : `flowstart`
    ## Requires : `ksh` `sed` `ps` `grep` `cflowdmux` `cflowd` `cfdcollect`
    ##
    ## Author : Chas Wareing <c3w@isp.net>
    ## URL : http://c3w.org/source/cflowd/
    ## CreateDATE : 22OCT2000
    ## ModifyDATE : never
    ##
    ## Purpose : starts non-running cflowd processes
    ## (or anything you want) and logs startups to
    ## flowstart.log. free, no warranty, etc etc.
    ##
    ## Use With : crontab per-minute: * * * * * flowstart > /dev/null

    ###
    ## Init VARs
    ##
    SED_BIN="/usr/bin/sed"
    PS_BIN="/bin/ps"
    GREP_BIN="/usr/bin/grep"
    CFLOWD_DIR="/usr/local/arts/sbin"
    LOG_DIR="/usr/local/arts/sbin"

    function initOnce {
    ## harvest PID from given program arguments
    myPID=$(\
            ${PS_BIN} auxw |\
            ${GREP_BIN} -e "[0-9] ${1}" |\
            ${SED_BIN} -e "s/root[ ]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/" \
            )
    ## if no PID, restart cflowd/cfdcollect
    if [ "${myPID}x" == "x" ]; then {
            echo $(date) Starting ${@}
            echo $(date) Starting ${@} >> ${LOG_DIR}/flowstart.log
            ${@}
    } else {
            echo ${@} already running as pid ${myPID}
    }; fi
    }

    ###
    ## RUNTIME START HERE
    ##
    ## trailing whitespace on args simulates cmdline execution
    cd ${CFLOWD_DIR}
    initOnce "./cflowdmux "
    initOnce "./cflowd -s300 -O0 -m " ## DJP patch args
    initOnce "./cfdcollect ../etc/cfdcollect.conf " 

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