Script Query

[Hunki]

I have this script which is suppose to page me if a certain number of processes are less than 7 and it shud page me at either the 16:00 hrs or 08:00 hrs time period ( this is according to my cron job )

Is this if statement enough to fulfill my need, coz lately its been paging me out at 08:00 hrs even though the number of processes are 7 , can somebody let me know why its behaving like this.

Here is the condition that I am putting in :

if [ $gv -lt 7 -a \( $gv2 -eq 16 -o $gv2 -eq 8 \) ]

[Jonathan Fife]

That particular statement looks correct. Perhaps the variable assignment to gv isn't being done correctly...

[Peter Godron]

Hunki,
also ensure you have white spaces around your escaped brackets. You could add a second set of brackets around the internal expression:
if [ \( $gv -lt 7 \) -a \( \( $gv2 -eq 16 \) -o \( $gv2 -eq 8 \) \) ]

[Hunki]

I have made on small change now :

if [ \( $gv -lt 7 \) -a \( $gv2 -eq 16 -o $gv2 -eq 8 \) ]

Also after debugging the value picked up by gv and gv2 is correct.

Lets c how its goes tdy and tomm.

[spex]

Hi Hunki,

if [ $gv -lt 7 -a \( $gv2 -eq 16 -o $gv2 -eq 8 \) ]; then
ps -ef | grep > /tmp/proclist.text

...
fi

Then consult /tmp/proclist.text the next time you are paged to see exactly was was running at the time.

PCS

[Mancboy]

Hunki, what shell are you using?
-a and -o are for checking on filetypes.

in ksh the following works fine:

if [[ $gv -lt 7 && ($gv2 -eq 16 || $gv2 -eq 8) ]]
then
page hunki
fi

or you could always use perl or awk and not have to bother about [ or [[ or ( or (( or \(