Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a PHP CLI script that runs as a daemon. I have a cron job that checks every 5 minutes if that script is running. PHP slowly builds up memory and then eventually dies. I want to write a Bourne script wrapper around it to prevent this. However, I can't get my monitor script to search properly because there are other processes running under SH when I do a top or ps check.

I'm hoping someone can help me with a way to explicitly have the name of my script show up in the ps or top command instead of /bin/sh. I've used 'ps -a | grep myapp' but no matter what I see the results of the grep command even if the application is running and this is undesirable because I want to either see that the process is running or not.

Thanks.

I think what you want to do is just filter out the grep:

Code:

ps -a | grep myapp | grep -v grep

dangral, Thank you. This will help me for now. This gives me only the process I'm looking for.

or better yet:
ps -a | grep [m]yapp

that works great too