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05-30-2007

melanie_pfefer melanie_pfefer is offline

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verify if a process exists (ps)

hi

I want to verify that a process exists. if the process exists, then it means the service is up.

ps -ef | grep monito
returns an entry if the service is up.

how to translate that in a shell script??

many thanks

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