[ale] multiple program launches with Evolution

[fd0man at gmail.com (Michael B. Trausch)]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:08 -0500, James Sumners wrote:

> Write a script that checks for a running pid and goes from there.


Here is a very simple one that will do the job, at least on my system:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Evolution startup script.
#

EV_PROCESS="evolution --component=mail"
EV_PID_LIST=`ps ax -o pid,command | grep "$EV_PROCESS" | grep -v grep`

if [ "${EV_PID_LIST}" = "" ]; then
    exec /usr/bin/evolution
else
    EV_PID=$(echo $EV_PID_LIST | cut -f 1 -d' ')
    printf "You already have Evolution running (pid %d)!\n" "${EV_PID}"
    exit 1
fi

    -- Mike

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