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I want to translate a small bit of shell script to Perl.

Here's what I have in my shell script ... 

...
PID=`cat /var/log/syslogd.pid`
RUNNING=`ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep $PID | wc -l`
if [ $RUNNING != 1 ]
then
    echo "syslog not running"
fi
...

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... Here's my lame attempt to translate this to Perl ... 
sub is_syslogd_running {
   my $cmd = "ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`"
+;
   my $rc = 1;
   open CMD, $cmd or return $rc;
   while( <CMD> ) {
      $rc = 0;
   }
   return $rc;
}

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... well that doesn't work to well and I suspect that the monks know a way-better way to do something like this. Can you help? :)

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In reply to How best to see if syslogd is running? by Plankton

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