Re: script question

>On Tuesday 30 June 2009, Dick Gevers wrote:
>> I cooked up a simple script which runs only when gkrellm notes that my
>> cpu is getting too hot (because of summertime + setiathome is running
>> 24/24).
>>
>> To make sure the script runs only once at the same time and not twice
>> simultaneously I put in an ...if ... <compare the number of scripts
>> running> ... then ...
>>
>> Now when the script runs (once only) and I issue separately the command:
>>
>> ps aux |grep <scriptname> |grep -v grep |wc -l
>>
>> this returns: 1
>>
>> But when I run the script (with 'bash -x') that contains the same line
>> "ps aux.....wc -l" it always returns '2'.
>>
>> I don't understand why. The number of processes running that include the
>> <scriptname> is always one in above example, so why does it return '2' if
>> the command is run inside the script and '1' when running separately?
>>
>> Thanks to anyone who can explain.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> =Dick Gevers=
>run it without the wc and see what you get.