On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:23:03PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:03:50PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > > ps ax|grep <daemon-name>|grep -v grep works for me. > > > > if [ "`pidof <daemon>`" ] ; then > > ... > > fi > > For some reason pidof doesn't work on the dictd daemon, so it may > not work on others as well. See Bug#67021.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/dictd$ ps auxww | grep dict nobody 16216 0.2 0.6 1768 876 ? S 20:26 0:00 dictd 1.4.9: 0/0 adam 16218 0.0 0.3 1112 412 pts/6 S 20:26 0:00 grep dict [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/dictd$ pidof "dictd 1.4.9: 0/0" 16216 Looks like it's working fine to me. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]