Hi Guys,

I found this script for monitoring the status of a services:

for i in syslogd cron; do
if [ `ps -eo comm | grep -v grep | grep -c ^$i` -gt 0 ] && [ `ps -eo comm,s|grep -v grep|grep ^$i|awk '{print $2}'|sort -u` = "A" ];
then
printf "%-8s" "$i";printf " is alive=A\n"
else
printf "%-8s" "$i";printf " is not alive\n"
fi

The script is working fine except if either syslogd or cron will have a defunct on the memory. It will have an error like this:

/usr/local/bin/checkserver.sh: line 9: [: too many arguments
syslogd is not alive

But of course, syslogd is running if I check with ps -ef | grep syslogd:

[itik@north001 ~]$ ps -ef|grep syslogd
root 1234 1 0 May04 ? 00:11:42/usr/sbin/syslogd
root 18555 5525 0 May04 ? 00:00:00 [syslogd] <defunct>
itik 22417 19840 0 13:23 pts/1 00:00:00 grep syslogd

Without error the output is like this:

cron is alive=A
syslogd is alive=A


Can someone please let me know where to change the error?

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards,
itik