cpkaaot - child_process keep alive and other things

Keep alive a process, watch port activity to spawn/kill the child process, redirect stdout / stderr.

install

npm i @mh-cbon/cpkaaot -g

usage

cpkaaot [options] -- [command line]

Required options
  --retry           How many time should cpkaaot tries to respawn the process.
  --retrytimespan   Timespan (minute) the process must not die more than
                    --retry times before it is considered as incorrect.

Optional options
  --stdout          Where to redirect child process stdout (path, url, tcp).
  --stderr          Where to redirect child process stderr (path, url, tcp).
  --watchaddress    Port to watch for activity to spawn the process.
  --watchinactvity  Inactive duration (minute) on the port after what the process is killed.
  --watchforward    Forward connect sockets to this address.

Example

Keep alive a process, but stop to re spawn it if it dies more 3 times a minute.

cpkaaot --retry 3 --retrytimespan 180000 -- [bin args]

Redirect stdout to a file

cpkaaot --retry 3 --retrytimespan 180000 --stdout /path/to/file -- [bin args]

Watch activity on port 8000, starts the process when a socket connects, stop the process after 3 minutes inactivity, forward sockets to localhost:8001.

cpkaaot --retry 3 --retrytimespan 180000 --watchaddress 8000 --watchinactvity 180000 --watchforward 8001 -- [bin args]

more examples

cpkaaot --retry 3 --retrytimespan 180000 --stdout http://path:port/url/ -- [bin args]
cpkaaot --retry 3 --retrytimespan 180000 --stdout tcp://ip:port -- [bin args]
cpkaaot --retry 3 --retrytimespan 180000 --stderr file://path/ -- [bin args]

Tests

To run the tests

DEBUG=@mh-cbon/cpkaaot mocha