How to verify if a daemon is up and running ?

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Re: How to verify if a daemon is up and running ? by rob_au (Abbot) on Dec 03, 2002 at 20:53 UTC
I would recommend the usage of Proc::ProcessTable which I have reviewed previously on this site here. Using Proc::ProcessTable, your code would look something like this: `use Proc::ProcessTable; my $running = 0; my $proc = Proc::ProcessTable->new; foreach ( @{ $proc->table } ) { if ($_->cmndline =~ /testd/) { ++$running; } } if (!$running) { # do something to reinvoke process }` [download] This code will count the number of `testd` processes running on the system, returned in `$running`, which should allow you to determine whether this existing process should continue execution. The other approach to this problem would be to incorporate a process identification or lock file, as suggested by Ryszard above, which can be monitored external the current execution process. `perl -le 'print+unpack("N",pack("B32","00000000000000000000000111110001"))'`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to verify if a daemon is up and running ? by Ryszard (Priest) on Dec 03, 2002 at 20:37 UTC
The decent method for you to do this is to create a lock file... On startup your prgy would read in a pid, and do a grep in the process list for that pid (and perhaps the name of your prgy ( to prevent collisions with reused pids)). If it finds the pid, it exits, if not, it continues and writes out its own pid ($$). This is a pretty standard method to prevent dupe processes...	[reply]
Re: How to verify if a daemon is up and running ? by ehdonhon (Curate) on Dec 04, 2002 at 03:49 UTC
I suggest Proc::PID_File.	[reply]
Re: How to verify if a daemon is up and running ? by Monky Python (Scribe) on Dec 04, 2002 at 09:03 UTC
Hi, the "quick and dirty" solution to your problem description. my $rc_testd = grep /testd/ , ( `ps -ef` ) ; if ($rc_testd > 1) { print "testd daemon is up and running \n" ; exit 1 ; } [download] But it only works if you have exacly one running "testd.pl". For a better approach you should consider the solutions by rob_au or ehdonhon. MP	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How to verify if a daemon is up and running ? by iburrell (Chaplain) on Dec 04, 2002 at 01:49 UTC
If you are going to use system-specific ps flags, you might as go all the way and save the use of grep and parsing the ps output. With the Linux ps, you can get just the pid of the syslogd process with: `ps -C syslogd -o pid=` [download] You can remove the current process from the list by removing the current process id in $$.	[reply] [d/l]


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