Repeater functionality

[rawdamedia]

Is there a better way of doing this? In particular:

• is there a way to have this run separate from a particular shell session, so that if I initiate it by remoting into a machine via SSH, I can leave it to run without having to maintain the shell connection?
• Maybe there already is a scheduler framework for Elixir?
• Should I just use the system scheduler mechanism, at the cost of being less portable between linux and mac?

[madlep]

To run it without requiring an SSH connection there are a few options.

If it's a run-once till finish, then shut down job, I'd handle this with the screen utility - it starts a sub shell where you run your command. You can detach from it and disconnect. It will keep running in the background. You can reconnect again if needed later on a new SSH session.

If it's a daemon process that needs to run indefinitely in the background, I'd use upstart or init or whatever the flavour of linux you're using has for maintaining system jobs that need to be kept up. It will restart if they crash, or if the OS reboots.