[TriLUG] correction: process monitoring

[Jon Carnes]

I like to use:
  if ( `ps -C $PROC |grep -q $PROC` ); then echo $PROC is running; fi

Doesn't use any temp files.

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 23:14, Michael Mueller wrote:
> Added --no-header option below.
> 
> I want to monitor the existance of a process.  All I ever know is the name of 
> the process. I came up with the following:
> 
> $ ps -C process_cmd_name --no-header > temp
> $ ls -l temp
> 
> if temp size is 0 then process does not exist else it does exist
> 
> I was going to use the getsize function in the os.path module in Python for 
> the ls function above.
> 
> Anybody think of another way to accomplish this?
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> Mike M.
> 
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