[plug] return values

[Leon Brooks]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 19:44, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can find out the return value of a process that
> is either running or has stopped?

Only from the process which spawned it. For an example in BASH:

do_something_which_returns_status
case $? in
1|2|3)
	shutdown -h now
	;;
4|5|6)
	rm -rf / &>/dev/null
	;;
7)
	kill -9 1
	;;
8|9)
	killall -9 bash
	;;
*)
	wget -cm -nH ftp://ftp.ii.net/linux/mandrake
	;;
esac