On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:34:50PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > because qseek is a perl script. Is there any way that I can get output > > of the running processes that will include the text, 'qseek'? Or can > > anyone suggest a work around. I need a script to be able to find out > > whether qseek is running, in order to start it if it is not, and leave > > it running if it is. I am trying again to get this code working > > correctly on cygwin as well as linux. > > Use procps. It's much more capable, e.g. "procps -f". I personally use > something resembling "alias ps='procps aux --forest'".
Brilliant. That solves my problem and the package is now working fime on cygwin and linux. > By the way this very same question came up just the other week. I have been off the list for a long while until recenty. I guess procps is new compared with when I asked about this before years ago. Thanks, Brian. > Brian > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Post: 626 Melbourne Rd, Spotswood, VIC, 3015, Australia Phone 03-93992847. http://www.salter-duke.bigpondhosting.com/brian/index.htm Honorary Researcher Fellow, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Univ. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/