Script that starts with boot and auto-restart on failure
What your script needs to perform in such a manner is systemd
sevice.
An example would be the one below:
[Unit]
Description=My Script
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/path/to/script
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
This can be done in several ways:
Place your script in another location and access it from your
systemd
service files.Place the code directly in the
systemd
service file.
I believe the first option is ideal in your situation. Now once done enable at boot with the normal systemctl
commands, such as:
sudo systemctl enable myscript.service
sudo systemctl status myscript.service
sudo systemctl stop myscript.service
sudo systemctl start myscript.service
Sources:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-systemd-units-and-unit-files
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html