I'm the same way. I only add real guru's as friends. Their Blogs and profile are what interest me. I'm on Linux.com to make friends that know Linux and can help me and in turn I try to offer what I know where I can.

I don't care about "Guru" status. I know my skills, and I think most people that are real Guru's don't care either :)

Yeah Its not very intuitive thats for sure :)

Either way ... somehow ... while clicking away trying to find it.. I did.. Don't ask me how.. but here's the URL

http://linux.com/my-comments

You can click on favorites in there. So if you can find a link to the My Comments app.. where ever that may be.. Or just bookmark that link :)

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Shawn

Yes I am referring to the Blog posts not forums.

Navigation in general seems to be a bit "off". But this one I can't find anywhere :(

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Shawn

Sorry if this question is answered somewhere.. But I've spent the last hour going through blog posts.. and found some really good posts that I've flagged as favorite. However, I can't find where to look them up now that their in my favorites.

Can anyone point me in the right direction.

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Thanks
Shawn

If the program creates a pid file you can use checkproc

Usage:
checkproc -p <pid file> <app name>

Example:

checkproc -p /var/run/daemon.pid /usr/local/daemon/daemon.pl

I use this in my init scripts for all my perl daemons.

It could be easily used in a bash script to check the return / exit code.

Example
echo $?

Exit Codes:
0 = Running
1 = Dead but pid exists
3.= Dead and no pid

You may also want to read up on startproc and killproc. I suggest starting with the man pages. There are lots of useful options that can make your bash script very powerful. Then pop it into cron to automate it.

Enjoy

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Shawn