David wrote:
>
> What is the point of the below in a script? This snippage is in the
> 'stop' portion of an init script. I just dont see the point of the if
> statement. It almost looks like it's just making sure $pid isn't empty.
>
>
> ------begin snippet------
>
> pid=`/bin/ps -e | grep process_name | grep -v mon | grep -v grep | sed
> -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ .*//' | head -1`
> if [* "X$pid" != "X"* ]
> then
> /bin/kill $pid
> echo "**process_name** interface stopped"
> fi
> ------end snippet------
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
It's preventing it from killing a process that isn't running
/usr/bin/kill by itself will error.
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