Jack Howarth wrote: [] > ps For some reason 'fink update-all' now seems to honor the > test. Strange. I would be interested to know if this test > fails for anyone else who has NAV 10 installed.
I can't help with NAV, but here is a guess about a possible cause: The ccp4 package description has the test if [[ $(ps axww | grep NortonAutoProtect | wc -l) -gt 1 ]] ; As I understand it, the idea is that when you grep the output of ps axww, you should see at least the line with the grep processs itself, so that when the processs in question is running, you get at least 2 lines of output. Now I see that the grep process is not always detected. I have before my eyes, for example, the following output: [abook:]costabel% ps axww |grep iTunesHelper 324 ?? S 0:00.54 /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper -psn_0_1441793 [abook:]costabel% ps auxww | grep iTunesHelper costabel 324 0.0 0.5 94336 3016 ?? S Sat06PM 0:00.54 /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper -psn_0_1441793 costabel 3793 0.0 0.0 8784 8 p3 R+ 8:06AM 0:00.00 grep iTunes [abook:]costabel% You see that the first time, only one line was printed, whereas the second time, 2 lines were printed. So this version of the test seems to be unstable (no idea why, but Apple's /usr/bin/ps behaves erratically like this). It would be more stable to replace the test by the more traditional if [[ $(ps axww | grep NortonAutoProtect | grep -v grep | wc -l) -gt 0 ]] ; which removes the grep process when it is present, or equivalently and shorter if ps axww | grep NortonAutoProtect | grep -v grep >/dev/null ; -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
