Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:11:35 -0800 From: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us> To: Len Conrad <LConrad@go2france.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: .sh interactive ok, from crontab, not Message-ID: <BA06FF17.14B81%pscott@skycoast.us> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20021125005050.01e0c638@mail.go2france.com>
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Oh, besides (or instead of) using the -w flag, you might also consider just shorting the width of the output lines. Since you don't need all the information between the user and command fields, you could just use: if ( ps -ax -o user,command | grep -iq "^root.*master" ) ; then Another possibility arises when a daemon writes its own process id into /var/run/ when it starts up, and removes it on termination. So, you could possibly test for the existence of the .pid file, such as: if [ -f /var/run/master.pid ] ; then Hope this helps. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:pscott@skycoast.us http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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