"Mikey" <frak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > How about grabbing the output from `ps -ax` and looping thourhgthe results > to see if your script is being run? Again the problem is of atomicity. This is a multi step process - do a ps -aux - do a grep on the output - start script processing What if second script between step 1 and 2 ? That is why we need something that is guaranteed to complete in 1 step. -- Raj Shekhar Y! : Operations Engineer MySQL DBA, programmer and slacker Y!IM : lunatech3007 home : http://rajshekhar.net blog : http://rajshekhar.net/blog/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php