Oh, besides (or instead of) using the -w flag, you might also consider just shorting the width of the output lines. Since you don't need all the information between the user and command fields, you could just use:
if ( ps -ax -o user,command | grep -iq "^root.*master" ) ; then Another possibility arises when a daemon writes its own process id into /var/run/ when it starts up, and removes it on termination. So, you could possibly test for the existence of the .pid file, such as: if [ -f /var/run/master.pid ] ; then Hope this helps. Paul -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
