TIP: ps -ax | grep (was Re: syslog daemon is dying)

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Branden Robinson wrote:

> ./etc/init.d/sysklogd restart; ps -ax | grep syslogd; ps -ax | grep klogd
> 

quick tip (totally unrelated to the syslogd problem, but useful anyway):

instead of the above line, use

    ./etc/init.d/sysklogd restart; ps -axc | grep syslogd\\\|klogd
or
    ./etc/init.d/sysklogd restart; ps -axc | grep "syslogd\|klogd"

e.g.

$  ps -axc | grep syslogd\\\|klogd
  266  ?  S      1:07 syslogd 
  268  ?  S      0:00 klogd 

it will run faster because it only has to run one instance each of ps and
grep rather than two each.

The "-c" option to 'ps' tells ps to display just the command and not
the arguments, which eliminates the need for a clumsy "grep -v grep"
pipe to get rid of the grep line in ps' output.

Craig


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