I have a perl program that is starting multiple quake3 servers. They are all running on different ports and can be recognized by what game type they are running (eg. capture the flag, or teamplay). How would I use the perl program to recognize specific pid's of each game? I may want to stop/kill the Capture the Flag server for example, but leave the teamplay one alone.
You would get something like this:

linux/djw # ps ax|grep [q]3ded
2894   pts/0    R     0:32     ./q3ded +exec ctf.cfg
2899   pts/0    R     0:25     ./q3ded +exec tourney.cfg
2904   pts/0    R     0:12     ./q3ded +exec team.cfg
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Could I have the pid's written to files in /var/run/quake3 for example? Maybe I could use file names like: ctf.pid, tourney.pid etc. to seperate them?

Any ideas on how that is done? Using Linux.

Thanks,
djw

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