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ok, i've got my script going. Thanks for the help!

I can honestly make no sense of that, I'm dyslexic and unless it's laid out really well, I just find it semi-impossible. As well as that, i'm not entirely sure what this does, other than calling...

at least that one's smaller than the apache one i was looking at!

Ok, i'm really confused.
I just haven't spent enough time scripting to be able to do complex tasks.
I don't want to ask too much of you, but let's say I want it to control the script...

well, I don't even have those, since i have ubuntu. I think its init.d in ubuntu. I'll try and find a simple one.

I'm wondering how I should make a script that can start, stop, and restart another script.
What I need to be able to do, is start and stop a perl script from the command line. The easiest way of...

I'd actually just copied what you wrote.

It was the "$chksum1" quotes that fixed it. Thanks!

by the way, line 10 is:
if [ $chksum1 = $chksum2 ]

I tried this in Korn, and got:
./checksumtester[10]: [: (path to log):unknown operator
I had the same result when I tried it in Dash as well.

Ok, I run a small script, that restarts a perl script when it fails (it's a very unreliable perl script, but I can't change it, it's crucial, and I don't know perl)
It outputs data into a logfile....

thanks, cfajohnson, that really helped

Some software, when you install it, prompts you for variables, such as the username for the software, or the password you are setting for the software's root account.
I would like to know if it is...