hi guys,
i'm back with a small problem.
i have now written a script that will grep for a process and will notify me if not running.
[#!/bin/ksh
pid=""
pid='ps -ef | grep "<process string>" | awk ' {print $2}''
echo $pid
if [ "$pid"="" ]
then
echo "process not running"
rsh <mail server> mailx -s "<etc etc process not running>" <mail.id>
else
echo service is ok
pid=""
fi
]
now i'm have a problem in the mailing section.
can any one tell me how i can redirect the output to a file and send it via mail if the process i'm greping is not runnning. i tried the above syntax and failed.

And one more help how can i find the parent process that aare running so that i can make a list of those important process.

kindly some one look into this and reply at earliest.

Regards,
Pradeep Kulkarni