Jonathan Guiton wrote:
> 
> I've been reveiweing my ip-up script today and noticed that the way
> I tell if sendmail has finished processing the Q (so time to drop the
> line) is determined thus:
> 
> NPR = `ps hx | grep sendmail | grep -v grep | wc -l`
> while test $NPC -gt 1
> do
>         sleep 5
>         NPR = `ps hx | grep sendmail | grep -v grep | wc -l`
> done
> 
> This is particularly unweildy and I just wondered how other
> people do it.
> 
> Jon

Before the idle option came along, I was doing something
similar with netstat -tn (instead of ps) 

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