Hello,

I'm writing a script that will automate the launch of some services on my AIX machine. However, some services are dependent on the successful startup of others. When I start these services manually, I usually just check a log file until I see a message that confirms a successful startup. So, I figure I can integrate this into my script but I'm not sure what the best way to do it is. I was thinking something like this:
but that seems cumbersome for the system (not to mention the fact that I don't think it's working). What would be the best approach here? Thanks for your help.

By the way, I'm using the Korn shell.

As your concern is to check if related service is Up or not running I think you have to deal with "ps -ef"

So if you want to run your script after being sure that apache is Up you can do it like this

If [`ps -ef|egrep -i "http|apache"|wc -l` -gt 1 ]
then
.........
fi


Hope this helps

Well, I would do that except for it's possible for the process to start up unhealthily (couldn't think of another word). This means that the process is alive but not functioning the way it's supposed to. In order for me to check if the process is alive and healthy, I have to check the log file. Also, it takes ~20 secs for the process to come up completely so I feel like the checking has to be done in a loop; I can't just check once and then move on.