Scripts to start and stop

[Adam Lang]

yup, the $ sign did it

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kjorling" <michael at kjorling.com>
To: "Adam Lang" <aalang at rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: "BIND-Users" <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Scripts to start and stop


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> I haven't tried to reconstruct the code from the posts, but here is my
> bet. Try quoting the string. And, if it's a bash shell script, you
> shouldn't have the $ at the beginning of the variable name or it will
> DEFINITELY be misinterpreted. Also, make the ps output wide and catch
> nanny instead of perl.
>
> nanny_pids="`ps -auxw | grep nanny | awk '{print $2}'`"
>
> You could also pipe it through 'sed s/$^/ /g' - this will give you all
> PIDs on one line, separated by spaces (like 'kill' wants them on its
> command line).
>
>
> Michael Kjörling
>
>
> On May 25 2001 14:32 -0400, Adam Lang wrote:
>
> > Ok I got part of it working:
> > ps -aux | grep 'perl' | awk '{print $2}'
> >
> > produces this at the command line
> > 22224
> > 28431
> >
> > (the first number is the nanny program and the second is the grep)
> > But when I run this in the script:
> > $nanny_pids=`ps -aux | grep 'perl' | awk '{print $2}'`
> >
> > I get:
> > ./named: =22224: command not found
> >
> > I placed an echo after that line to se if anything is in $nanny_pids,
but it
> > echos a blank line.
> >
> > I know this is not 100% BIND related, but I figured if I can get a
working
> > script, it would be good for the archives to have.
> >
> > Adam Lang
> > Systems Engineer
> > Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> > http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
>
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