Bash script to check running process [duplicate]

Answer 1

Despite some success with the /dev/null approach in bash. When I pushed the solution to cron it failed. Checking the size of a returned command worked perfectly though. The ampersrand allows bash to exit.

#!/bin/bash
SERVICE=/path/to/my/service
result=$(ps ax|grep -v grep|grep $SERVICE)
echo ${#result}
if  ${#result}> 0 
then
        echo " Working!"
else
        echo "Not Working.....Restarting"
        /usr/bin/xvfb-run -a /opt/python27/bin/python2.7 SERVICE &
fi