Hey peeps. >From a fed/centos cmdline... pgrep -f "foo" | wc -l will return 0 -- if "foo" doesn't exist in the procTBL, and something else if "foo" is running. The curiousity... When I have a simple php <?php $f="pgrep -f 'foo' | wc -l"; $t=`$f`; print $t ?> $t isn't 0!! -- it's actually 1, or something else if foo is running.. Any ideas why?? I've used the different methods php provides to "run" shell/.cmdline processes. I get the same results. Now.. I can do something like ps aux | grep 'foo' | grep -v 'grep' | wc -l and get the correct results within the php as well as the shell. Didn't find anything via the 'net or SO on this.. Thoughts/comments?? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx