man pgrep PGREP(1) Linux User's Manual PGREP(1) NAME pgrep, pkill - look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes SYNOPSIS pgrep [-flnvx] [-d delimiter] [-P ppid,...] [-g pgrp,...] [-s sid,...] [-u euid,...] [-U uid,...] [-G gid,...] [-t term,...] [pattern] pkill [-signal] [-fnvx] [-P ppid,...] [-g pgrp,...] [-s sid,...] [-u euid,...] [-U uid,...] [-G gid,...] [-t term,...] [pattern] DESCRIPTION pgrep looks through the currently running processes and lists the process IDs which matches the selection criteria to stdout. All the criteria have to match. For example... Clay Fandre wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Lansing, Dan wrote: > > >>Ok...perhaps I should have been more specific....i am familiar with chron, grep and ps....how would I combine these to write a script to do this?? >> > > > #!/bin/sh > > if ! ps -ef | grep <process name> | grep -v grep > /dev/null; then > <restart process> > fi > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list