On Sat, Sep 09, 2000, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > ps ax|grep <daemon-name>|grep -v grep works for me. > > > > if [ "`pidof <daemon>`" ] ; then > > For some reason pidof doesn't work on the dictd daemon, so it may > not work on others as well. See Bug#67021.
Then I suggest the following : ps ax | grep '[ ]'<daemon-name> I think the 'grep -v grep' kludge usually taught should be avoided. Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ dig goret.org @zoy.org axfr \ | perl -e 'for(sort(<>)){print pack("H32",$1) if(/^c..\.(\w+)/)}' | gzip -d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]