Hi , Just use eax with =out the "-" for linux.
example for named ps eax | grep named | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//' Larry At 12:18 AM 4/29/00 +0200, Paul van Empelen wrote: > >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. > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
