PS function for scripts

[David Bandel]

On 9/14/06, Machiel Richards <MachielR at agilitytech.co.za> wrote:
> Hi everyone
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>    Need some help on something we can't seem to get right.... we have a
> script that calls a couple of programs one after another and after
> completion sleeps for 1 hour then starts running again.
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>         However when we do a ps to see if the script is still running it
> does not return any results as if it is not running...we then need to ps
> for every single program to see which one of these are busy running.
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> How can we monitor the scripts to see if it is still running and perhaps
> what program it is running at the moment?

Take a look at how init scripts work, writing a PID file and removing
it on exit.  That might help.  That would also prevent a process from
becoming wedged, then trying to restart an hour later even though it
hasn't yet finished.


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David A. Bandel
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