Thanx, Michael and Andrew. Here is my first usable shell script, thanx to your
help.
The idea was the system cannot start the X-Server sometimes when the power goes
off unexpectedly. So, if an error message is found the system should be
shutdown nicely and then when it reboots, it runs an fsck and cleans up.
The second set of checks is because sometimes the grep command itself appears in
the ps ax, and we do not want to reboot for this spurious occurrence.
#!/bin/sh
msg1="/etc/gdm/XKeepsCrashing -noopen"
msg2="yesno I cannot start the X server"
check1=$(ps ax | grep -i "$msg1")
count1=${#check1}
check10=$(echo $check1 | grep -i "grep")
count10=${#check10}
check2=$(ps ax | grep -i "$msg2")
count2=${#check2}
check20=$(echo $check2 | grep -i "grep")
count20=${#check20}
if [ $count10 -gt 0 ]
then
count1=0
fi
if [ $count20 -gt 0 ]
then
count2=0
fi
if [ $count1 -gt 0 ] || [ $count2 -gt 0 ]
then
echo "Found it!"
shutdown -r now
else
echo "Not found!"
fi
Anil Gupte
www.keeninc.net
www.icinema.com
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Subject: Re: Learning Scripting
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