On 5/16/06, Anil Gupte <anil-list@icinema.com> wrote:
The idea was the system cannot start the X-Server sometimes when the power goes off unexpectedly. So, if an error message is found the system should be shutdown nicely and then when it reboots, it runs an fsck and cleans up. The second set of checks is because sometimes the grep command itself appears in the ps ax, and we do not want to reboot for this spurious occurrence.
It looks like your script might generate false negatives, if the error condition is there but grep shows up in ps. You might want to instead try: check1=$(ps ax | grep -i "$msg1" | grep -v grep) check2=$(ps ax | grep -i "$msg2" | grep -v grep) You then shouldn't need check10 and check20. Another option would be to test check10 and check20 against check1 and check2. I think the above is probably better, though. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com