LICQ start script

Arne Schmitz <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:41:34 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.network.licq.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi everyone!

I don't know if anyone else has got this problem, but for me, Licq sometimes 
does not start. This is because there is a stale licq.pid lockfile, and some 
other process took the PID. The attached script checks if the current user is 
already running a copy of Licq and if not, it will remove the lockfile. This 
does not work for multiple Licq base directories, but for the average user it 
should be fine.

Arne

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licq.sh (application/x-shellscript, 477 B)

#!/bin/bash

LICQ_PID=$(pidof `which licq`)

if [ "$LICQ_PID" == "" ]
then
    rm -f ~/.licq/licq.pid 2>&1 > /dev/null
    licq
else
    USERS=$(ps u --no-headers -p $LICQ_PID | awk '{print $1}' | grep `whoami`)
    echo $USERS
    if [ "$USERS" == "" ]
    then
	rm -f ~/.licq/licq.pid 2>&1 > /dev/null
        licq
    else
	LICQ_PID=$(ps u --no-headers -p $LICQ_PID | grep `whoami` | awk '{print $2}')
	echo "Licq is already running as $USERS with pid $LICQ_PID."
    fi
fi

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