Ok in rxvt but not in script

[big_bass]

Hey Gilbert

I played with grep and ps looking for a way to monitor services
for a little script I wrote to monitor cups
and I found another way of going at this


I tried to compile PSG but it failed but I liked the simple idea of it

so I found an alias instead that simulates it

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 alias psg='ps auxw | grep -v "grep -i" | grep -i --color'

then you just type

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psg cupsd

root 4561 0.0 0.1 4500 1584 ? Ss 19:07 0:00 /usr/sbin/cups



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so I guess if wget was running

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psg wget 

psg wget
root 13181 0.5 0.1 3276 1336 pts/2 S+ 20:27 0:00 wget http://puppy2.org/slaxer/bluefish-1.0.7-i486-slxr.pet
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add the filtering formatting you prefer
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nice and easy


Joe

[mikeb]

Hmm just thought of another approach to tracking and killing multiple spawned processes

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#make unique link to application
UNIQUE_ID="random string"
ln -s `which (binary)` /tmp/thing$UNIQUE_ID

#to run
/tmp/thing$UNIQUE_ID

#to monitor
[ `pidof thing$UNIQUE_ID` ]&& echo "It is still running"

#to kill....
kill `pidof thing$UNIQUE_ID`
rm /tmp/thing$UNIQUE_ID`

#or simply
killall thing$UNIQUE_ID

clean and simple, at least visually...probably a purists nightmare

mike

[mikeb]

Hey now here a kludge...rearranging only worked until there were spaces in the name.....I can tidy this up but would use the same method. I suspect the difference is to do with how multiple lines are handled in the terminal as apposed to a script

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function _status (){
	#stupid but what works in terminal will not work here so heres a bodge....
	ps | grep 'wget -c' | grep -v grep | sed 's%.*/\(.*\)-o.*%\1%' > /tmp/tart.status1
	ps | grep 'cclive -c' | grep -v grep | sed 's%.*/\(.*\)http.*%\1%' >> /tmp/tart.status1
	echo -e "\c" > /tmp/tart.status
	while read I ;do
	echo ${I##*/} >> /tmp/tart.status
	done < /tmp/tart.status1
}

I'm just assuming the first part of sed does not work reliably....all I wanted was to preserve the users readable name choice

mike

[sunburnt]

This sounds just like the script problem amigo and I were struggling with...

Bash interprets the arguments instead of passing them as literals.
There seems to be no way around this except to do it differently...