Re: grepping in ps output

2000-04-30 Thread Larry Morrow
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

Re: grepping in ps output

2000-04-30 Thread Chris Frey
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 07:39:37PM -0400, B.C.J.O wrote: > Evi Nemeth had a good trick for dealing with that situation using the > short test notation: > > f'rinstance, you want to nuke every process owned by user: > > kill -9 `ps aux | grep [u]ser | awk '{print $2}'` > > ... where the trick is

Re: grepping in ps output

2000-04-28 Thread B.C.J.O
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Paul van Empelen wrote: > > > And not all processes use a /var/run/.pid. With the commands > > ps ax | grep process, you sometimes see the 'grep process' in the output. > > That's not what I want. > > grep -v grep Evi Nemeth h

Re: grepping in ps output

2000-04-28 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Paul van Empelen wrote: > And not all processes use a /var/run/.pid. With the commands > ps ax | grep process, you sometimes see the 'grep process' in the output. > That's not what I want. grep -v grep -- [-] there's a devil waiting outside your door

Re: grepping in ps output

2000-04-28 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
Dont reinvent the wheel. With that said, here are some pointers :) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])(23/ttyp2)(04:26pm:04/28/00)- ($:~)- ps auxwww | grep q[m]ail qmaill1482 0.0 0.2 848 144 ? S Jan 24 1:54 splogger qmail qmailq1485 0.0 0.1 84068 ? S Jan 24 0:57 qmail-clean qmail

grepping in ps output

2000-04-28 Thread Paul van Empelen
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/.pid. With the commands ps ax | grep pro