1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Does anyone know if there is a UNIX-tool available that constantly will check if (some specific) deamons are running and will notify (via email) if one has failed/stopped? I searched the web, but so far didn't find anything. (3 Replies)

2. Red Hat

Hi Friends, Please help me to understand, how to enable async disk IO and Direct disk IO in ext3 filesystem on rhel5. Regards, Arumon (0 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi , I have a csh code below which check the process if it's running. Can any expert advise me on the following: 1) what does this notationmean ">!" and how is it different from the append ">" notation ? 2) how does "setenv" work in this code ? # Check whether there is a running... (3 Replies)

4. UNIX and Linux Applications

Hi I would like to check if an instance of a script is already running. I've seen many different examples, but I haven't the slightest idea as to how to do this. Can you please help. Thank you. (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I check if the process is running or not using the below. /usr/ucb/ps auxww | grep 109 |grep rmi | awk '{print $2}' 9718 Thus we see 9718 is the PID. It return blank if the process is not running. I need to perform some action if the process is not running and leave it if... (8 Replies)

6. AIX

I understand that AIO is not something that you turn on in AIX 6.1 but I am getting a request to turn on posix aio. I am guessing a value of 0 means it's off but not sure. root@foobar:/> ioo -a | grep active aio_active = 1 posix_aio_active = 0 When I... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Happy New Year Is there a quick way to check to see if a script is already running. I want to put in a check in the script to exit, if already running. Currerntly i can only think of doing it the following way. # ps -ef | grep -i 3_HOUSEKEEPING_FFTVTL_TO_FFTDSSU_DUPLICATION.ksh |... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to check how many processes are running with same names and get their respective counts. ps -ef|grep -Eo 'process1|process2|process3| '|sort -u | awk '{print $2": "$1}' Output would look like : $ ps -ef|grep -Eo 'process1|process2|process3| '|sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2":... (8 Replies)