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Hello everyone, today i bring to you another question, it's about de activehost.
So i need to know the syntax and what's his functionality, cause i need to inclued it in a script to prevent that other user can execute an application that it's share between two different servers.
Please if anyone can help me....
Thanks

activehost is not a command that is part of "standard" or POSIX (another name for standard) UNIX.

What OS are you on? Please show the output of

Code:

uname -a
which activehost
which ACTIVEHOST

-- note you have ACTIVEHOST -- all capital letters, maybe try that, too.

Jim Mcnamara, my servers are running on Red Hat 5 Enterprise.
I really didn't understand anything, i'm a beginner on this frame. That's why, i don't know may be what i'm talking about.
I'll explain to you again.
I have two servers that use the same application and the same directory(share), so this app can't run in both at the same time, it means that if some user execute the script (star) that put it on march this app from one of this server, anoter user can not put on march other instance. That's what i'm trying to avoid.

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I have another idea, include on my start script a bucle that check before execute, if my app is running already. I have the ideas, but no the how to do it!