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[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>   

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