#!/bin/sh

# create a variable with each monitored process on a separate line
processes="nzbget"
# use while [ 1 ] to loop forever
while [ 1 ]
do
  # the for loop will automatically split the $processes variable by newline
  for p in $processes
  do
    # if the process $p is running, pidof $p will return its process ids (one
    # for each instance of the process). otherwise, it will return an empty
    # list and the following if condition will return true
    if [ ! "$(pidof $p)" ]
    then
      # print an error message to the console window and restart the process.
      # the ampersand starts it as a background process.
      echo -e "\n\n***********\nRESTARTING $p PROCESS\n**********\n"
      /home/gravyface/nzbget -D &
    fi
  done
  # Sleep for a few seconds so that the loop doesn't keep querying for process
  # ids over and over.
  sleep 10

    done