you can look at the parent pid of the process in question wether it is 1 or not:
ps xa -oppid -p _PID_ But depending on what you're trying to do afterwards (for example kill the process if you determine by some external script that there are too many apaches running and you're not satisfied with the native apache process maintanance mechanism), there can be better ways... Regards ---- Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Josh Brooks wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:22:00 -0800 (PST) > From: Josh Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: differentiating apache children from parents ? > > > Hello, > > Is there any way to tell, simply from /proc info and/or ps output if a > certain httpd PID is a child or the parent ? > > If yes, is this method applicable on any OS (linux) ? > > thanks. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
