On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Jason Bailey <jbai...@emerytelcom.com> wrote: > How would I get a list of running processes with the subprocess module? The > documentation wasn't clear to me.
Using the ps command. :) rosuav@dewey:~$ python3 Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 8 2014, 10:45:20) [GCC 4.9.1] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import subprocess >>> b" dhcpd\n" in subprocess.check_output(["ps","-A"]) False rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python3 Python 3.5.0a0 (default:4709290253e3, Jan 20 2015, 21:48:07) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import subprocess >>> b" dhcpd\n" in subprocess.check_output(["ps","-A"]) True There's a DHCP server running on Sikorsky, but not on Dewey. :) Of course, this can be faked. Any process can call itself 'dhcpd' and pretend to be the DHCP server. It's up to you to decide how to deal with that. (Probably by not caring, I would expect. Unless you actually expect someone to maliciously try to confuse your script, it's not worth the hassle of protecting yourself.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
