Simple script , error catch

arash8m · 05-24-2007, 11:40 AM

Hi all,
I'm given the task to write a script that executes the file "stopet" which stops bunch of processes running in the background. As the processes are terminated, a message is displayed on the screen saying whether the termination was successful or not. Now I need to make my script so that it logs the processes that were not successfully terminated. Any help is appreciated.

krizzz · 05-24-2007, 01:04 PM

You can check the exit value of (I guess) kill command. Right after calling it store it's exit value and then check if it's zero or not:

Code:

kill $pid
exitval=$?
if [ "$exitval" != "0" ]; then
    echo "$pid was not terminated" >> log.txt
fi

I assume you have a pid or a process name