[TriLUG] Re: correction: process monitoring

[Brent Verner]

[2003-01-18 05:09] James Manning said:
| > [Michael Mueller]
| > Anybody think of another way to accomplish this?
| 
| killall -0 procname and check $?
| pidof procname and check $? or check for output
| 
| jmm at xanex:/home/jmm> for i in bash xxx; do
| > killall -q $i && echo There is a $i process running
| > done
| There is a bash process running
| jmm at xanex:/home/jmm>

or pidof(8) could be used...

sh$ if pidof $someproc >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  >   echo "$someproc is running"
  > fi
bash is running

  b

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