RE: [PHP] Test if a daemon is running...

2002-05-02 Thread Gilles Nedostoupof
I would like to monitor 3 different daemon : postfix, amavisd (a virus scanner acting as a content filter for postfix) and spamd (SpamAssassin, a spam filtering daemon invoked by procmail acting as an SMTP server). Can we be sure that a daemon is running if the .pid file exist? Gilles. -Or

[PHP] Test if a daemon is running...

2002-05-02 Thread Gilles Nedostoupof
Hello everybody, I would like to know an easy way to check is a daemon is running. What do you think is the best? Try to read a .pid file from the right directory? Use sockets function to try to connect to the listening port of the daemon? Grep the output of "ps -e" ? Thanks for your help ! Gi

[PHP] Daemon starting

2002-04-22 Thread Gilles Nedostoupof
Hi all, I'm looking for a simple method to start a linux daemon from a php script... I've already tried to use sudo by giving rights to apache user to execute some scripts from /etc/rc.d/init.d ; I do a exec ("sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/daemon start"); Sometimes the daemon startup, sometimes no... I