can anyone help on the following problem.


System Configuration : SunOS sun210 5.9

I have two scripts "Master and Restart" script.

- From the master script , I have to start, stop the restart script on certain conditions.

- To achieve the above functionality, I need to get the processID of the restart script. But when i try the following script I am not able to get the processId.

Sample Master Script
====================

./restart.sh &

while true; do
if [ check for some condition ]
then
restartId=`ps -ef | grep "restart.sh" | grep -v "grep" | sed /zap/d | cut -c10-15`
if [ -n "$restartId" ]
then
echo "Killing the restart script"
kill -9 $restartId
fi
fi
sleep 1
done




- When I manually tried to '$ Ps -ef | grep restart.sh' , I could not see any process running.

Is there any better and efficient way to do the above.

Thanks and Regards,

vinoth

Does the sunOS have the 'killall' command?

I tried to duplicate what you did, but mine worked. However, I kept spelling 'resultId' as resultID.
-----
restart.sh

#!/bin/bash
while true; do echo "test" >testfile; done
-----

master.sh
#!/bin/bash

$(./restart.sh) &
ps
while true; do

restartId=`ps -ef | grep "restart.sh" | grep -v grep | sed /zap/d | cut -c10-15`
if [ -n "$restartId" ]
then
echo "Killing the restart script"
kill -9 $[restartId]
fi
sleep 3
done
-----
result

Solaris has pgrep and even pkill, so the whole block
can be simplified in
Not sure about the /zap/ thing though, are there some restart.sh you want to keep ?

Thanks for your replies, The script works fine.

I missed out the line '#!/bin/bash ', in my restart.sh.

So the script's ProcessID was not available when I did 'ps -ef | grep restart.sh'

when I added the line #!/bin/bash , I was able to get the processID and kill the process.

Again thanks,

Vinoth

So you don't like my optimization ?

Hi Jlliagre,

Your optimization doesn't work for the below script ( softwareRedundancyTest.sh) .

I don't know the reason. when I do pgrep the processId is not displayed. even pkill doesn't work.

softwareRedundancyTest.sh
=====================
#!/bin/bash

ps

while true;do
echo "Software Redundancy Test script..."
sleep 1
done

But now I observed that the same script , by renaming the filename it works. I renamed the script as 'soft.sh' . I am able to do pgrep and pkill . :-)

Is there anything to do with the filename length ??

Anyway thanks for your suggestion.

Please advice,

Vinoth

Long names are indeed not matched by default, just use
pgrep -f softwareRedundancyTest.sh
to correct that.

- typo corrected