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From: eric@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Eric Halil)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sps won't stop running
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.004506.22365@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 18 Mar 91 00:45:06 GMT
Organization: Prentice Computer Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia.
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Hi,

I have a shell script which needs to see if a process is running and if not
restart it.  I check to see if the process is running using the following
line

  if sps w | grep -v grep | grep "$PROCESS" >/dev/null 2>&1
  then
	  :
  else
	  $PROCESS &
  fi

where $PROCESS contains the process name.

The problem is that occasionally sps doesn't stop running! It just keeps
going and going--I need to kill it to stop it. A sps on the runaway sps 
process shows it's status as RUN. Can anyone explain whats going on??

Thanks,
Eric.
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