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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can run a ".sh" script as the user but not from the crontab Post 302352119 by methyl on Thursday 10th of September 2009 12:10:45 PM
Old 09-10-2009
Quote:
bhaire 22082 1 0 Sep 09 ? 4:58 /install/new/application
This process is a background process with a PPID of 1 . I suspect the the first "ps" in your script picked up the script or program which started the process "/install/new/application". That isn't in a cron as well is it?

There are other minor issues in the script. You are doing a text compare when a numeric compare would be better. There is a spurious semi-colon near the end of the script. Your highlighed line does not need the echo. Indentation makes scripts easier to follow.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
m=`ps -ef | grep "/install/new/application" | wc -l`
if [ $m -ne 2 ]
then
	ps -ef | grep "/install/new/application"
	echo "starting application"
	/install/new/runapp.sh
	echo "done"
else
	echo "no action taken"
fi

If the user is always "bhaire", "ps -fubhaire" is more efficient than "ps -ef".
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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