#!/bin/bash

##echo "argument: $1"

## searches for an already running instance of $1 of user $USER
RESULT=`/bin/ps xauwww | /bin/grep -v "$0" | /bin/grep "^$USER.*$1$"`

if [ -z "$RESULT" ] ; then
    ## I prefer english messages to (bad) german ones:
    LC_MESSAGES=en_US $*
else
    echo "Sorry, already running as:"
    echo "         $RESULT"
    ## Here, notify the user with some external tools like 'beep' (just plays a wav-file) ...
    #beep
    ## ... and/or use festival (a speech synthesizer) to generate a message:
    echo "singleton reports that $1 is already started" | /usr/bin/festival --tts 
fi

#end