On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Daniel C. Cotey wrote: > > my mud is run on a friends linux box that reboots alot (always have > the latest linux though :) so I wrote this little cron script to restart > autorun after the reboot. It seems to work, but leaves a zombie process > lying around. If anyone could tell me how to get rid of the zombie I'd > appeciate it. > > > Daniel > > -------CUT HERE---------- > The crontab I use is: 30 * * * * if [ -z "`ps -u <username> | grep autorun`" ] && [ -z "`ps -u <username> | grep circle`" ]; then cd <mud directory>; ./autorun& fi No script is needed I hope this works for your OS too (maybe you need other options with ps). don't forget to change the <xxx> things to what you need it to be. Jaco
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