Posted by Raj Shekhar on 03/16/05 21:21

"Mikey" <frak@totalise.co.uk> writes:

>
> How about grabbing the output from `ps -ax` and looping thourhgthe results
> to see if your script is being run?

Again the problem is of atomicity. This is a multi step process

- do a ps -aux
- do a grep on the output
- start script processing

What if second script between step 1 and 2 ? That is why we need
something that is guaranteed to complete in 1 step.

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