Martin Franklin wrote: >Christoph Haas wrote: > > >>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:57:26AM -0500, pt python wrote: >> >> >> >>>im moving from the windows world to the linux world and i need to make >>>a python script to see if a service is instaled (ex: apache), if it is >>>running or stoped and to start/stop a service like apache or mysql. >>>Theres an API on windows to manage services and i need to know how to >>>do that on linux. Can anyone help me with the module and API to work >>>with services on linux? >>> >>> >>Unless you really want to do that in Python. It's just a matter of "ps" >>and "grep". Simple shell stuff. >> >>Example: ps ax | grep apache >> >> >> > > >On RedHat based distro's (fedora in my case) > > >/sbin/service sshd status > > >gives me (as a normal user) the status of my ssh server not sure if >other distro's have this... > > > > > >>>by the way, im developing a app, maybe multi-plataform, to install and >>>manage several open source packages like apache, mySQL, phpwebadmin, >>>phpnuke, etc... if anyone have nice ideais i apreciate that.. >>> >>> >>That's usually the Linux distribution's job to handle the installed >>packages. Some distributions do that better than others >>(<cough>Debian<cough>). ;) Or what did you mean when you said "install >>and manage"? >> >> >> > > >yeah you really need to look at the tools you have been given with your >distro, rpm, deb, etc for the best way. If it's pure python then the >distutils package (in the python standard library) may help, also I >noticed that PyInstaller 1.0 has just been released > > > i'd be very careful using a distro specific tool. it's no good if it only works on redhat.
>http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/pyinstaller > > >and has options to create single file installers for Linux / IRIX and >Windows... > > > > > > > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
