on Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:39:05 GMT, Jessee Parker wrote:

> Hi all, I've run into a bit of a problem. I need to see if a program
> is currently running. If it is, I want to display this on a web page
> that tells the status of the program (either on or off). The script I
> created which is probably longer than it needs to be, basically
> issues a system(ps -A) call and writes it out to a file which in
> turns gets parsed through. 

There is no need to use an intermediate file if you use a pipe:

        #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
     use strict;

     open PS, "/bin/ps -A |" or die "cannot fork: $!";
     while (<PS>) {
            # do your stuff
     }
     close PS;

-- 
felix

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