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Here’s a little application<\/a> I wrote for a permanent installation.
\nThis python script will run a ps command every minute to check if max is still running. If max isn’t running, the script will restart max.<\/p>\n

go to \/Applications\/Utilities\/Console.app to see what maxcrashdemon sez.<\/p>\n

if you got apple’s developer tools installed, i recommend using the following python script. it allows you to choose which file to launch in case max crashes and can even send out emails to alert someone.<\/p>\n

just copy the code into a textfile “maxcrashdemon.py”. once you finished editing the code, double-click this file and BuildApplet.app will create an application, which you can then add to your login-items on the machine running the installation:<\/p>\n

############# Robin Meier Paris Octobre 2007 for soham sound #############\n\nimport commands #to use terminal commands\nimport smtplib #to send mails\nimport time #to sleep\n\ni = 1 #forever\n\ndef alert(server):\n\tsmtplib.SMTP(server).sendmail('edit_from@address.fr', 'edit_to@address.fr',\n\t\"\"\"yo, max crashed!!!! but don't worry... i just restarted max....\n\t\"\"\")\n\tsmtplib.SMTP(server).quit()\n\ncomm = 'ps -x | grep MaxMSP | grep -v grep' #instead of MaxMSP you could put any other application\n\nwhile i == 1:\n\tstillup = commands.getoutput(comm)\n\tif stillup == '' :\n\t\tprint \"ouch, send a mail and open max (or patch) again\"\n\t\tcommands.getoutput('open \/Applications\/MaxMSP\\ 4.6\/MaxMSP.app') #put the path to your patch here instead\n\t\talert('smtp.truc.fr') #you have to put a working SMTP server here\n\telse:\n\t\tprint \"everything fine\"\n\t\ttime.sleep(60) #check every 60 seconds - i wouldn't do this too often - go easy on your cpu...\n\t\tcontinue<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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