[TriLUG] process monitoring

[Joseph Tate]

man pidof

Mike M wrote:

>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 > temp
>$ ls -l temp
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>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
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