The first problem is that you've written a shell script in Perl. Perl can do all those things: grep, awk, sleep without all the backticks. And if you are adventuresome, you can use a module to replace the functionality of ps too.

Now onto your actual bug. You need to use "eq" to do your string comparison. "==" does a numerical comparison and since neither string has any numbers in it you get "0 == 0" and therefore it's true. 

while ($RUNDBCOLD eq (`ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep "nscd" | awk -F/ '
+{print \$4}'`))

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HTH

In reply to Re: Checking a command is running by pzbagel
in thread Checking a command is running by mrbbq

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