Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Yogich <yogich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 19:45, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 08:33 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > >    if ! ps -aux | grep $daemon | grep -iv grep
> >
> > 1. why -i? grep is grep, not GrEp
> > 2. you can do daemon=f[e]tchmail instead to avoid irrelevant hits on the
> > grep process
> > 3. Use checkproc for the testing instead of any of the above
>
> How does one get checkproc to work?
>
> (my attempt)
> =======================================================
> srv1:/var/mail/backup # ps aux | grep fetch | grep -v grep
> root      8104  0.0  0.2   5808  1832 ?        Ss   Nov13   0:10 fetchmail
> -f /etc/fetchmailrc
>
> srv1:/var/mail/backup # checkproc fetchmail
>
> srv1:/var/mail/backup # checkproc /usr/bin/fetchmail
>
> srv1:/var/mail/backup #
> ============================================
> No response using progname or fullpath to progname

If checkproc doesn't work when using the full path for the target, try just 
the target name.  Like I said: you can modify it for your use. 8-)
-- 
	...Yogich