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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Nadir Aliyev <nadir@ultel.net>
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Nadir Aliyev <nadir@ultel.net> writes:

> Hello friends. 
>
> I have interesting situation with cron. 
>
> I created a
> simple script for process monitoring:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/bash
> processname=`/bin/ps aux | /usr/bin/grep -v grep |
> /usr/bin/grep -c 'maintenance_jobs.php'`
> if [ $processname -le "0" ];
> then
> echo "`/bin/date` > JOB WAS DEAD. RESTARTED!" | mail -s "ATTENTION"
> my@email.net;
> /usr/local/bin/php
> /usr/local/www/web/bin/maintenance_jobs.php  then" is not interpretated by
> shell when i run this script from cron.
>
> I tried it on sh and bash. Result
> is same.
> But this script worked on pre 8 versions.

The script got wrapped and apparently cut off.  

I can't understand it, and probably nobody else could either.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/