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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ps -ef failing sometimes Post 302520772 by methyl on Monday 9th of May 2011 07:02:57 AM
Old 05-09-2011
As posted the script will never return a result because the name of the script does not normally appear in "ps -ef".
It might work if the script was invoked with "sh scriptname" such that the name of the script appears in memory.

This sort of application is best handled with flag files.


The output from "ps" is not reliable. It will sometimes miss processes on a busy system. I've seen this many times with monitoring scripts.
 

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INSTALLSIEVE(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   INSTALLSIEVE(1)

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NAME
installsieve - user utility for managing sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
installsieve DESCRIPTION
installsieve is a utility that allows users to manage their sieve scripts kept on the server. OPTIONS
-v <name> View script with the given name. The script if retrieved sucessfully is output to standard output. -l List all of the scripts currently on the server. If one of the scripts is active a arrow is printed indicating that it is the active script. -p <port> Port to connect to. If left off this defaults to "sieve" as defined in /etc/services. -i <file> Install a file onto the server. If a script with the same name already exists on the server it is overwritten. Upon sucessfully putting the script on the server the script is set active. If <file> has the extension .script it is chopped when put on the server since sieve names may not contain a '.'. -a <name> Set <name> as the active script. The list of available names can be obtained from the '-l' option.. -d <name> Delete the sieve script on the server with <name>. -m <mechanism> Force installsieve to use <mechanism> for authentication. If not specified the strongest authentication mechanism is chosen. -g <name> Get the sieve script with <name> and save it to disk with a ".script" extension. If a file with that name already exists it is overwritten. -u <user> Userid/Authname to use for authentication; by default, the current user. CMU
Project Cyrus INSTALLSIEVE(1)
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