superinactive

Supervisor plugin to monitor for file activity and restart program on inactivity

Imagine you have an infinite long running ffmpeg job, which converts a video stream on the fly. After a certain time the file output does not change any more but supervisor does not detect the ffmpeg job as crashed.

This plugin may solve such situations.

Installation:

pip3 install superinactive

Configuration:

[program:ffmpeg]
command=ffmpeg ......  -o /home/volker/out.stream

[program:superinactive]
command=superinactive /home/volker/out.stream 10 ffmpeg

Command line options:

usage: superinactive.py [-h] [-g GROUP] [-a] path timeout [prog [prog ...]]

Supervisor plugin to monitor a file activity and restart programs on
inactivity

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

file monitoring:
  path                  file path to monitor for inactivity
  timeout               timeout (seconds) for inactivity

programs:
  prog                  supervisor program name to restart
  -g GROUP, --group GROUP
                        supervisor group name to restart
  -a, --any             restart any child of this supervisor