Hey Hans,
Go check out a program written by Evan Borgstrom, it is a program written
in perl that will check to see if a program is up, and email you the
status.. It runs as a cron job. Also you can add additional services quite
easily.
Author: Evan Borgstrom
Email : syntec at unixpimps.org
WWW
> Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Use backticks to capture the ps -ef output and search for
> sendmail. I wouldn't send the ps|grep pipeline to the backticks,
> because on my system the ps output includes the grep command,
> which might give a "false positive".
>
>print "sendmail i
$isalive = system "ps -ef | grep sendmail | grep -v grep";
if ($isalive) {
do something
} else {
do somethingElse
}
-Original Message-
From: Baartmans, Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 2:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Check
> -Original Message-
> From: Baartmans, Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Check to see if process exists
>
>
> Is there good way to execute a UNIX 'ps' command from Perl
&g
Is there good way to execute a UNIX 'ps' command from Perl and check to see
if a process is running or exists? For instance, I would like to check to
see if Sendmail is running. Under a UNIX shell command you can execute,
'/usr/bin/ps -ef | grep sendmail'.
Is there an easy way to do this in Per
