Re: Script to check a process

[Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:09:48AM -0300, Diego Alencar Alves de Lima wrote:
> How can I make a script that will check to see if a certain process is 
> running? The process name is "nspluginviewer" and there should be 3 of it 
> running (each one called from a konqueror process).  Then it would reboot the 
> computer if it didn't detect the three running.
> 
There are many ways to do it, one could be:

while [ $(pidof <command> | awk '{print NF;}') -eq <nr occurences> ]; do sleep 1; done ; shutdown -r now

Regards,
Frederik
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