Cron script to check if OSCam is running with auto restart

[Sat-TV]

As more and more peeps are required to take the plunge with oscam here is a simple script which will check to see if oscam is running.
If oscam has stopped running it will restart it automatically.

#!/bin/sh

process=`ps auxwww | grep oscam | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ -z "$process" ]; then
echo "Couldn't find oscam running. Restarting server-binary" >> /var/log/oscam.check
nohup /usr/local/bin/oscam >> /var/log/oscam.log &
else
echo "oscam is still OK!" >> /var/log/oscam.check
fi

You must make sure that your oscam binary is indeed located in /usr/local/bin.
If it's not, adjust the script accordingly.

Now just configure cron to run the script say every 5 minutes.

[alexwilmac]

Hi, it's an old thread I know, but my question is valid the same, I suppose:
what if I'd like to restart it anyway, even if it's already running?
I tried just this part of your script
nohup /usr/bin/oscam >> /var/log/oscam.log

(where I obviously changed the bin path)

Thanks

[CapNCooK]

If you just want to force-restart oscam;

#!/bin/sh

process=`ps auxwww | grep oscam | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ -z "$process" ]; then
echo "Couldn't find oscam running. Restarting server-binary" >> /var/log/oscam.check
nohup /usr/local/bin/oscam >> /var/log/oscam.log &
else
echo "oscam is still OK - but you wanted to restart it anyways, and so we do.." >> /var/log/oscam.check
killall -9 oscam >> /var/log/oscam.check 
sleep 2 
nohup /usr/local/bin/oscam >> /var/log/oscam.log &
fi