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Re: [SLE] Script to check if an application is running
  • From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:55:39 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <200511171755.35617.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
Bruce, Anders,

On Thursday 17 November 2005 17:52, Anders Johansson wrote:
> ...
>
> > How does one get checkproc to work?
> >
> > ...
>
> Try
>
> checkproc /usr/bin/fetchmail && echo "it's running"
>
> checkproc simply returns a value, which you can then test for, for
> example using if, as in your previous script

Also check out the man page for options and, most of all, the two
aliases and primary modes of operation: absolute path name of
executable (checkproc) and base name of executable (pidofproc).


Randall Schulz

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