Hi, I am working on a bourne script that can restart services if they hang. If the process does not respond, I want to kill and restart it, but I haven't found a good way to locate it's process ID from the ps output. And not all processes use a /var/run/<file>.pid. With the commands ps ax | grep process, you sometimes see the 'grep process' in the output. That's not what I want.
The following command works pretty well on Solaris. Does anybody know the Debian equivalent? PID=`ps $PSOPTION | grep $SERVICE| sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//'` (where $PSOPTION is -e for Solaris, and probably ax for Linux) Thanks, Paul.
