This is probably a historical question, yet I'd like to re-open it. What is the best way to determine if a process is up?
Best way = portable across linux distributions, quick, relies on minimum availability of resources Checkproc for example is used in init.d scripts on SuSE, but is not a command in RedHat distribs. A chkproc function is used by RedHat for the same purpose, but is not available except for init scripts. The command pidof(8) is a good candidate. Another is pgrep (a canned ps and grep?). Pidof is packaged in sysvinit, while pgrep is part of a "ps" package. Another complicating question is LSB. Should it be taken into account? Regards, Dan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
