10 Mar
2010
10 Mar
'10
6:24 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 06:15:32PM +0100, Linas wrote:
Byron Clark wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0700, Byron Clark wrote:
if pidof sshd | grep -q $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid); then echo "pid in /var/run/sshd.pid is valid" else echo "invalid pid" fi Ignore that, it isn't entirely safe.
You may want grep -q "^$(cat /var/run/sshd.pid)\$"
Unfortunately that only works if there is only one sshd process returned by pidof. Here's the case I'm worried about: /var/run/sshd.pid: 343 pidof sshd: 3433 -- Byron Clark