Hello all,

I have a script that i am using ot check if a process is running then echo out if it is and echo and email if it is down.

However when i run it witha valid process it says process is running when i run it with just anything like say abcdefg it says it is running but there is no such process so i aint sure what i ave done wrong on the script.

#!/bin/sh

if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -w $1 > /dev/null
then
echo "$SERVICE is running"
else
echo "$SERVICE is not running"
echo "$SERVICE is not running!" | mail -s "$SERVICE down" root
fi

Thanks

A

The outcome of this does not automagically make a process a service...


This variable wasn't declared as in 'SERVICE=$1'.


On GNU/Linux you may want to use 'pgrep' instead.


Are you sure you want to reinvent the wheel and not use something like 'monit'?

For a light-weight solution, adapting the script to simply use the return code from pgrep should work fine.