Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to tell Cron X is running or not

2007-11-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:40:08 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, both of those should work from cron or anywhere. In my case and probably many other as well, I could shorten the ps approach to: ps aux|grep '[X] :0' Or use pidof X. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 46: Found missing

[gentoo-user] Re: How to tell Cron X is running or not

2007-11-26 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pidof X Vey nice ... Neil are those green bananas on your head or leaves? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: How to tell Cron X is running or not

2007-11-25 Thread reader
Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about something like this: retval=`ps aux | grep tty | grep X | awk '{print $2}'` Or retval=`cat /tmp/.X0-lock` Or even better: if [[ -e /tmp/.X0-lock ]];then Yup, both of those should work from cron or anywhere. In my case and probably many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to tell Cron X is running or not

2007-11-25 Thread felix
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:40:08PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, both of those should work from cron or anywhere. In my case and probably many other as well, I could shorten the ps approach to: ps aux|grep '[X] :0' But looking for /tmp/.X0-lock is probably the most reliable. Thanks