Filed under: Hacks, How-tos, Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting
Automatically restart crashed programs
Over at Macworld Rob Griffiths has a great column on automatically restarting a program after a crash. Although it is much more stable these days, for a while last year Quicksilver was constantly crashing on me and often I wouldn't notice until ? + space was strangely unavailing. If there's any program for you, like Quicksilver for me, that simply must be running all the times (but which unexpectedly crashes sometimes), Rob's hint is potentially very handy. It basically involves using Lingon to create a launchd daemon that watches for a crash log and then restarts the application when it sees one. Full instructions are available at Macworld. I'm now going to go see if I can get this set up for Quicksilver.
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Herbert Kornfeld said 9:24AM on 4-24-2007
This was previously discussed on macosxhints (http://tinyurl.com/ywjxwo), and was also recently discussed at the Quicksilver forums (http://tinyurl.com/2dw2sv). In the latter forum, one user even references an applescript which will give you a dialog asking you if you want to relaunch Quicksilver.
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Bob S. said 10:01AM on 4-24-2007
My preferred technique is to not use crappy software that crashes so much you need more software to work around it.
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