02-12-2004
Try this
There is always a better way, but here is an idea.
grep out the grep process.
so it looks like this now:
pid=`/usr/bin/ps -e | /usr/bin/grep cron | /usr/bin/grep -v grep | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//'`
Last edited by viRaven; 02-12-2004 at 01:31 PM..
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NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron
DESCRIPTION
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SEE ALSO
crontab(1), crontab(5)
AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)