read daemon status

amyarjun has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Good Day
I need some guide,
i have few perl application running as a daemon in Linux fedora.
I need to read out the status, currently i'm reading using ps -C <the file name>.
the system shows whether the daemon is running or not, but i need more info liek usage time , memory usage , sleep and ...
and i want to do it in a nice sorted manner so that i can view a list in a cool layout.

any one can give guide hint anything will be very help ful

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Re: read daemon status by tachyon (Chancellor) on Aug 15, 2004 at 11:56 UTC
All the raw info is in: `/proc/PID/*` [download] For example you may be interested in: `cat /proc/PID/status cat /proc/PID/mem cat /proc/PID/cpu` [download] tachyon	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: read daemon status by edan (Curate) on Aug 15, 2004 at 12:01 UTC
You should consult your friendly local man pages for `ps`. You'll find there are myriad options for controlling output and sorting. For example, you could use: `ps -C daemon -o command,pcpu,%mem,user,time,rss --sort rss` HTH -- edan	[reply]
Re: read daemon status by borisz (Canon) on Aug 15, 2004 at 11:23 UTC
Look at GTop to get information for your process. Boris	[reply]
Re: read daemon status by saintmike (Vicar) on Aug 15, 2004 at 19:32 UTC
Proc::ProcessTable saves you the parsing of `ps` output.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: read daemon status by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Aug 15, 2004 at 17:49 UTC
On Red Hattish systems, the daemon init script often has a status target. $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd status httpd (pid 11795 11789 11676 11675 11674 709) is running... $ [download] After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l]