H! I have made a program that is checking if a program is running or not. If the program is not running then it must start the program again.
in the /etc/crontab: * * * * * root /usr/sbin/ program_prgchk in the /usr/sbin/program_prgchk: /usr/local/bin/python /home/reseller/domeinaanvraag/program_prgchk.py in the program_prgchk.py: ---------------------------------------- import string import os import commands def checkifrunning(): line = string.strip(commands.getoutput("ps x -o pid,command | grep program_reseller.py | grep -v 'grep'")) pid = string.split(line,' ')[0] if pid<>'':pid = int(pid) return pid if checkifrunning()=='': os.system('/usr/sbin/program_reseller') # os.wait() # os.waitpid(checkifrunning(),0) os._exit(0) If I run the command /usr/sbin/program_prgchk everything works (no <defunct> process) But when I use it in the crontab I get a <defunct> process Thanks for helping, GC-Martijn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list