Re: funny bug

[vp@example.com (Viktor Pavlenko)]

>Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
>> 
>> I want to share with you a bug in my shell script I discovered
>> yesterday. The script was in production for quite a while...
>> 
>> In the shell script I test if a process is running:
>> 
>> if [ `ps -ef | grep [pP]rog_name | wc -l` -ne 0 ]
>> 
>Why not:
>if killall -0 prog_name ?
>
>/Fredric

Thanks for the tip (which I can't use: the script is on HPUX:(

Viktor