Hi all,

For instance,
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[root@svr1 root]# ps -ef |grep squid
nobody 6354 1 0 Jan20 ? 00:00:00 /cache/squid/bin/squid
root 17300 17212 1 08:45 pts/1 00:00:00 grep squid
[root@svr1 root]#
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I need to write an if-then BASH shell to determine if a PROCESS is running.
I take SQUID as an example.
That should be something like this:
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if [squid is running]; then
{echo "good"};
else
echo "bad";
fi
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Please give me some guide. Thank you in advance.

zuohong

You need to look for the "Introduction to BASH Programming" on the Internet or in the links section on the forum.

If it's a process you've invoked from the command line, use the command

jobs

to see a list of process invoked from your tty. If you want to see it from a script, look at

man test

and the syntax

if [ -test condition ]; then
do something
else
do something else
fi

You can compare strings using this method and return a boolean TRUE or FALSE.

Also look at parsing the output of ps.

That's as much guidance as you should need (you don't want me to write it for you surely?)

Bert

The answer is in your post, you just need to put it all together.

[CODE]
if ( `ps -ef | grep squid | grep -v grep | wc -l` -eq 1 )
then
echo "good"
else
echo "not so good"
fi
[\CODE]

You could also use the pgrep utility which returns the process id. As shown below.

[code]
if (pgrep squid > 0)
then
echo "squid is running"
else
echo "squid is dead"
fi
[\code]

<edit>
for some reason the code tag doesn't seem to work right now.

...also on any SysV system the easy way would be to check the script that exists as /etc(/rc.d)/init.d/<servicename> with the "status" arg.

RH also got /sbin/pidof as an pgrep equiv. btw:
case $(/sbin/pidof squid 2>&1> /dev/null; echo $?) in
0) exit 0;; *) echo it aint runnin;; esac

Hi,

Thank you all so much.
I really need to learn much more in this field...