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Hi All,

I'm a newbie in Linux Programming.
Got some 500 processes running and I have around 20-30 logs updating for every 2mins on a server. The logs which i'm referring usually contains book name,run ids(not PID's),process name etc etc.
I'm interested in finding out whether some particular run id is running/stuck/failed with error.

Code:

apps/trep/basicactions/logs/:~$ps -ef | grep 530654 .log*

Above is the code im using..but returns nothing even when i know that 530654 is run id. 530654 is just an example given.

Please help me out with any of the commands to check for my above query.

Thanks in advance
NK

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will this command help me.?

Code:

grep 530654 | tail -f .log*

So, I'm afraid what you have doesn't make sense really.

You are saying "Get me a list of all processes and pass that into a grep against a file. I'm not sure that will have any effect.

Are your log files all called .log* ? in which case, you just need the second part of the command. If you are trying to say "Which are the open log files, and is my search string in them?" then that's a whole different question.

Assuming that the log name is in the output of ps -ef, can you copy and paste a sample so we know what we're looking at?


Thanks,
Robin