On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 04:38:31PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Bruce J.A. Nourish thought:
> > if ps -U $LOGNAME | grep realmutt > /dev/null
>
> Be careful about using grep to search the output of ps. For example
>
> $ ps ax | grep lemming
> 16004 tty1 S 0:00 grep lemming
>
> Y'see? Grep makes a match on its own process.
>
I generally use
ps | grep <PROCESS> | grep -v grep
That wil catch the process I require and dump the 'grep <PROCESS>' line
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Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Domestic Sysadmin :-)
