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Created April 7, 2016 13:28
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(Insanity Radio) Ruby script to monitor Rotter, restart it if it dies, and ensure that is always writing output.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Super simple daemon to watch Rotter and ensure it doesn't crash
$config = {
:path => "/var/www/",
:timeout => 5,
:log => "/dev/null"
:pid => "/run/insanity-rotter.pid" }
begin
pid = File.read($config[:pid]).to_i
Process.kill 0, pid
abort "[ CRIT ] Script is already running with PID #{pid}. Kill it first."
rescue
end
abort "[ CRIT ] Try re-running as superuser" if Process.euid != 0 or (pid = fork) == -1
exit unless pid.nil?
Process.setsid
abort "[ CRIT ] For some reason the second fork failed" if (pid = fork) == -1
exit unless pid.nil?
Dir.chdir "/"
STDIN.reopen "/dev/null"
STDOUT.reopen $config[:log], "a"
STDERR.reopen STDOUT
puts "[ INFO ] Started with PID #{Process.pid}"
File.write $config[:pid], Process.pid
# We're forked! Start our monitoring.
Thread.new do
loop do
file_name = Time.now.strftime("#{$config[:path]}%Y-%m-%d/%Y-%m-%d-%H.mp3")
initial_size = File.size(file_name)
sleep $config[:timeout]
# if we've moved into the next hour, we no longer care
next if file_name != Time.now.strftime("#{$config[:path]}%Y-%m-%d/%Y-%m-%d-%H.mp3")
# magic: if the soundcard has died, the file size won't change by much.
if initial_size + 10 > File.size(file_name)
STDERR.puts "[ CRIT ] Restarting Rotter, file writing stopped"
Process.kill "TERM", $pid
sleep $config[:timeout]
end
end
end
loop do
$pid = fork { exec "rotter -a -f mp3 -b 320 -L dailydir #{$config[:path]}" }
puts "[ INFO ] Rotter started"
Process.waitpid($pid)
end
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