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Subject: Re: small script help
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There's an errorneous extra ^ in line 6 - please remove this
character.

Fixed version should look like:

#!/bin/sh

PROCESS_PATTERN="^/usr/local/sbin/saslauthd"
PGREP="/bin/pgrep"

if ${PGREP} -q -j none -f ${PROCESS_PATTERN}; then
   echo -e "OK"
else
   echo -e "FAIL"
fi

frank\

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