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On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 01:01:59PM +0200, Alex Efros wrote:
> One more question. If prog exit with non-zero return code, it will be
> executed again (until number of tries reached). But if timeout happens
> and it will be killed by TERM or KILL - it will not be restarted. Why?

The timeout applies to tryto, not to the prog it runs.  When the timeout
is reached, tryto cleans up and exits as soon as possible, regardless
how often prog has been tried.

Regards, Gerrit.