On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:45:35AM -0400, Brian Clark wrote: > Would any of the perl users in this group know an easy way, with perl, to > check to see if a certain process is present? Say, httpd? > > I was going to parse the output of ps but that just seems stupid.. ---end quoted text---
It's One Way to do it. A couple of others are: 1) If you know there should be a lockfile for that process while it is running, look for it. Or a pid file (a file in a known location with a known name to which the pid is written, which exists so that some other process can kill the daemon later). 2) Try to connect to the appropriate socket for a daemon that listens on a socket. Any others? Don't forget: TMTOWDI[*] and as long as they all produce correct results, then they're all equally valid. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [*] There's More Than One Way to Do It, the official mantra of perl programmers.
