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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

On 23 May 2004 at 15:51, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> If rpciod exists, you should be able to see it when you do ps.
> I suggest you mount manually and check ps.

I did, and it does exist on  ASUS  after  FIC  is mounted,
ps says its ID is some number? like 34 or 165 or such, along with a few 
other like   init  and some others in brackets like [kpiod]

I'm not understanding how to do tests such as    Is this thing 
equal/bigger/smaller, or    Is this thing null (whatever that is)  or    
D oes so-and-so exist

or  Is the length of this string zero, or is it more or leess than 
whatever

You saw the way I did it with the  bash  in BL2.1, apparently was that a 
string or numeric comparison of `pidof rpciod`.

I forgot where I got all that, probably a combination of you and looking 
at on line how-tos.

But I can' t find simple lessons on how to say it so that  sh  will do 
it.

I need to know how to do   if then else  and   case  and such stuff.

Are there functions like length, as in 

if length(`pidof rpciod`) -gt 0;
then
do such and such;
fi

or is it length(string(`pidof rpciod`))   in case `pidof rpciod`  is an 
integer

or what???

Thanks,
Sheldon Isaac