UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi guys,
i was hoping you could help me out with the following

im designing a help site for my work colleagues and would like a little script which would do a grep to check if an application is running on unix

for example this is what i do on unix
ps -ef | grep mqm

and this tells me if mqm is running

now i would like my website to say for example that mqm is running on server1 so you dont need to start it

thanks so much!
chris

Something like

Code:

if [ $(ps ef | grep '[m]qm') -gt 0 ] ; then
  echo "Site is up"
else
  echo "Site is down."
  # start the server.
fi;

You will have to redirect the echo to another page.

See if this works for you:

Code:

vProcName="mqm"
vTotProcs=`ps -fe | egrep -c "$vProcName"`
if [ ${vTotProcs} -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Process "$vProcName" is already running."
 exit
fi
<start_your_process_here>

thx so much guys
much appreciated

one more question
how do i get this script to run from a website?
my guess is i need to telnet into the server and then run it?