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JMT and Kundunni,

thank you both a lot for your replies. I'll try your solutions as soon as I get to my work.

I am sure JMT's solution will work since I understand what his command exactly...

I don't have pkill.

Yet, I know the answers a doddle if you can combine kill, ps -fu, and awk '{print $2}' (with ps).

Only, am not able to do it myself, and waiting for a shell expert to do it...

Hi,

I know that the answer to this is very simple, since I saw somebody do it some time back..but I forgot how.

The problem is, I have multiple instances of the same program running...

Silly me..

I had to read through you script to discover what's happenning here, whereas a simple inspection of the results you are getting reveals the situation.

Your output statements appear...

Hmm.. I just tried creating a file and immidiately deleting it using the command posted by Radar. I made the argument to the option -mtime for the find command as 0.

It works.

So, I guess you...

Please post your crontab file text and the script text as well.

Even if I myself may not be able to solve your problem even after seeing those, but it will surely help anyone who is knowledgeable...

How can we create a background process programmatically?

One way I know of is to fork() and exit from the parent process, leaving the child running. It will run as a background process.

I...

wish to thank both of you for the neat solution to my problem.

for my membershi id in this site. :)

Regards
Indrajit

All,

I want to find ONLY the directories containing ...say "*.log" under some $MY_HOME.

man on find does not seem to yield any suitable option for me.

need to do this on a Sun system.
...

hmm...
1. as above; also Dylan,Hendrix.
2. driving - would be classic rock from the 80s.
3. Jethro Tull
4. sleeping ( surrender to the music) : Led Zepplin, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach.

Dave matthews band, pearl jam....and I work all the time :D