[SOLVED] ps -A in script not showing full output

throughthegreens · 02-25-2010, 03:33 AM

Hello everyone, i have a problem with ps, and pgrep when used in a script. with the -A option it does not print all processes and pgrep on a known running process returns nothing. So I made a script with nothing but "ps -A" and the shebang and it does show all of them. Also, ps -A on the command line is showing all processes. I am running this script as root and it is owned by root.

edit: I have ps -A in a function called in a case and if I put ps -A outside the function and case it shows all. how is where it's at changing it's output

ashok.g · 02-25-2010, 03:48 AM

I recommend

Code:

`ps -A`

insted of

Code:

"ps -A"

Could you please provide us the code you tried till now?

throughthegreens · 02-25-2010, 04:05 AM

backticks result in "PID: Command not found"

The problem was stoprouterconn was killing wpa everytime. I still don't think the ps -A looked full, but the script works now.
code:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
  2 
  3 WPA="wpa_supplicant -BD wext -i $IFACE -c /etc/Networks/CABLE1.conf"
  4 IFACE="wlan0"
  5 OUT="/var/log/networking"
  ### This gives full output
  6 ps -A | grep wpa_supplicant
  7 
  8 stoprouterconn() {
  9                 dhcpcd --release $IFACE 1>> $OUT
 10                 killall wpa_supplicant 1>> $OUT
 11                 ifconfig $IFACE down >> $OUT
 12                 /sbin/ifconfig lo up >> $OUT
 13         }       
 14 createnetclient() {
 15                 ifconfig $IFACE up >> $OUT
 16                 ### this returns nothing because ps -A doesn't show wpa_supplicant
 17                 ps -A | grep wpa_supplicant
 18         ### This returns nothing, wpa_supplicant is running though
 19         if pgrep wpa_supplicant
 20         then    
 21                 wpa_cli -i wlan0 reassociate 1>> $OUT 2>&1 &
 22         else    
 23                 wpa_supplicant -BD wext -i $IFACE -c /etc/Networks/CABLE1.conf
 24         fi      
 25                 dhcpcd $IFACE 1>> $OUT 2>&1 &
 26         }       
 27         
 28 case $1 in
 29         start)
 30                 createnetclient
 31                 ;;
 32         restart)
 33                 stoprouterconn
 34                 sleep 2
 35                 createnetclient
 36                 ;;
 37         stop)   
 38                 stoprouterconn
 39                 ;;
 40                 *)
 41                 printf "usage: rc.network stop|start|restart\n"
 42                 echo "  stop:           1=stoprouterconn()"
 43                 echo "  start:          2=createnetclient()"
 44                 echo "  restart:        (1) -> sleep -> (2)"
 45                 ;;
 46 esac