On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Rainer Canavan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I need to programatically determine whether httpd is running or not, whether
>> I'm root or not. The only reliable way I have found is to use the system
>> command 'ps -C httpd' and grep the results.
>>
>> Is there a better way?
>
>
> If you know where the .pid file is, you can read that and check if the
> process is
> running, e.g. via ps --pid `cat /var/run/apache2.pid`
Or:
kill -0 `cat /var/run/apache2.pid`
which is likely "lighter".
Regards,
Yann.
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