Re: Remotely restarting a machine using AppleScript
Re: Remotely restarting a machine using AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Remotely restarting a machine using AppleScript
- From: Michael Shantzis <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:39:43 -0700
The correct way of doing such a thing in the OSX environment doesn't
involve applescript at all, but rather involves some unix programming.
Note that what you're trying to do is not uncommon. You have a server
that you want to ping periodically to see if it is down. If it is down,
you want to restart it (NOTE: rebooting your machine is most likely
unnecessary, just restarting your server should be sufficient).
So here's roughly what a unix solution to this would entail. You
would write a script (shell, perl, python) that does the following:
- runs 'ps' to see if the process for still running. Do a 'man ps' to
figure out what information you need to get out. You'll probably pipe
the output through 'grep' to figure out if the server is running.
- If it's not running, restart it. you can do this simply by
using the 'open' shell command (e.g. "open /Applications/Mail.app"
will
start up mail).
How do you get this script to run? You put it into one of the
subdirectories of /etc/periodic (the dirs are daily, weekly, monthly)
to say how often you wish to run it. that's it!
For more information on those directories, type 'man periodic' from
your terminal.
- Michael
On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 10:37 PM, Rob Werner wrote:
We are running a FileMaker Pro 6 server, but unfortunately FMPro
unexpectedly quits quite regularly. The service is quite important, so
obviously we would like to avoid downtime. I am looking into the
possibility of writing a script that would run on a different machine,
and
monitor a webpage that would be served by FileMaker. If this page
became
unavailable, this would indicate a crash and the script would remotely
reboot the FileMaker machine.
Anyway, is it possible to remotely reboot a machine using AppleScript?
I
was think SSH or something like that. Something fairly robust, that
would
reboot the machine regardless of what the system is doing. Any
thoughts?
Cheers,
-Rob
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