Unstoppable

Is it possible to write a script, that works with an "out-of-the-box" Knoppix 3.3 harddisk installation, that executes a program. Once the program is closed, the scripts restarts the program.
Can this script be made?

PS: I'm not lazy. I just don't know what scripting language to use. Please initiate me :)

Simple, use c++
"
#include <iostream>

using name space std;

void main()
{
system("your program path goes here");
main();
}
"

this will run your program, after that quits it will run the main function and that will run the program and so on for ever.

So all I do is create a text file, insert the code, and chmod it executable? Please don't smirk, I'm a newbie.

Since it's C++, you'll need to compile it first. Put it in a file called forever.cpp and run "g++ forever.cpp -o forever", and you will have an executable called "forever". Careful though - the "#include" line should read "#include <iostream>" (your web browser may think <iostream> is HTML). Oh, and no space between "name" and "space" in "namespace".

If you want to avoid C++, you can use the following bash script:

Code:

---

#!/bin/bash

function doStuff {
    # your code or program call goes here
    doStuff
}

doStuff

---

Type "man bash" in your shell to learn more about bash.

Thank you all. I feel like a masochist because I hate ignorance :lol:

Oh my, Bash resembles a mixture of Windows batch files and PHP. Smooth :)

Erhm, sorry but neither of the proposed solutions seem to match the original
requirement, which implies looping. C++ sure is overkill here, a simple shell
(bash) script will do:

Code:

---

while true
do
    # your program invocation here
done

---

With that C++ program, I think it would generate a stack overflow error eventually since it's a recursive function. Possibly the first bash script, too (although I don't know enough about bash to tell you either way).

I'm curious to what program you plan on running. :)

You don't want it to run to the exclusion of all other programs, like a kiosk, do you?

I'm very interested in an easy way to set up a kiosk. The program I wish to run recursively is rdesktop. It has to be recursive because logging out of Windows also quits rdesktop.