[WLUG] Linux, Monero and Hardware Issue

[Chris Baty]

Thanks Paul,

I’ll give it a try.  My Hard drive crapped out - AGAIN.

Chris
> On Mar 26, 2017, at 9:29 PM, Paul <set.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Chris Baty <batymahn at gmail.com>, on Sun  2017.03.26 said:
>> Hi guys,
>> A juicy Linux question now: I got my XMR miner  working now and it spits
>> out activities to I assume stdio, or the terminal.  It occasionally hangs
>> and the process has to be killed and restarted.  I was  wondering if you
>> could write a script where you write the output to a file, with a
>> timestamp.  If the timestamp was older than 10 seconds than kill and
>> restart the miner?
>> Thanks.
>> Chris
>> 
> 
> 	Hi;
> 
> 	You could use stat with something like this simple script, I suppose:
> 
> Paul
> 
> ------
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> INTERVAL="10s"
> FILE="logfile"
> MTIME=$(stat -c "%y" $FILE)
> while true; do
>        echo "$MTIME"
>        sleep $INTERVAL
>        NEW_MTIME=$(stat -c "%y" $FILE)
>        if [ "$MTIME" = "$NEW_MTIME" ] ; then
>                echo "$FILE was not modified in the space of $INTERVAL"
>                # restart daemon here
>        fi
>        MTIME=$NEW_MTIME
> done
> 
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