2013/6/5 Dmitry Smirnov <[email protected]>:
> `pgrep` is searching for substring in process name. For example if I
> have `konsole` running the `pgrep konso` will return PID even though
> there is no process "konso" running.
>
> "proc.num" is checking for exact process name so it will return
>     0 for `zabbix_get -s localhost -k 'proc.num[konso]'`
> and
>     1 for `zabbix_get -s localhost -k 'proc.num[konsole]'`

I know, that's why I wrote the console output. In my case, 'spamd' is
the exact process name.

| $ pgrep -l spamd
| 854 /usr/sbin/spamd
| 858 spamd child
| 859 spamd child

Cheers


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