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