On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Ravi Jaya >> >> Above script looks good, but I like to propose my modifications in that. > > #!/bin/sh > echo "Checking for mplayer..." > stat=`pgrep mplayer` > if [ "$stat" = "" ]; then > shutdown -hP now > fi > > Love to save the above script as the watchdog.sh. Instead of going for a > infinite loop with sleep command, I would add script along with watch as > > $watch ./watchdog.sh >
Ravi, I have not used watchdog or watch anytime. Thanks. That should also work. Ah I later realized that you are talking about the watch command which I learnt recently. That is nice too. You are just calling the script watchdog.;) Okay. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
