From: carl.reilly@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 12:09:36 AM UTC-6, 6502en...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Thanks for the help!   
   >   
   > The PI is being powered by a 5V 1A transformer.   
   >   
   > It is connected via a USB to serial adapter to the serial port of a Apple   
   IIe.   
      
   The USB to serial are known to be sort of flaky... Saying that, the hardware   
   should be powered fine with that power source you have.   
      
   If you set it up as a service, it should restart automatically if you told it   
   to in the service file.   
      
   To find out if tcpser is still running after it craps out, at the bash type:   
   ps -ef | grep tcpser   
      
   If the resulting list displays that it is still running, then kill it by its   
   PID.  Don't confuse the "grep tcpser" in the list as the tcpser command,   
   itself.   
      
   If it is not running, then I'd write a quick script that will perform that ps   
   command above and if tcpser does not exist, then start it. Put an entry in   
   your CRON to run that script every 5 minutes or quicker.   
      
   Still, the best practice would be to make a tcpser service and tell the   
   service to restart on termination.   
      
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