[gentoo-user] Re: How to tell Cron X is running or not

2007-11-26 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pidof X Vey nice ... Neil are those green bananas on your head or leaves? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to tell Cron X is running or not

2007-11-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:40:08 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yup, both of those should work from cron or anywhere. In my case and > probably many other as well, I could shorten the ps approach to: > ps aux|grep '[X] :0' Or use "pidof X". -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 46: Found miss

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to tell Cron X is running or not

2007-11-25 Thread felix
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:40:08PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yup, both of those should work from cron or anywhere. In my case and > probably many other as well, I could shorten the ps approach to: > ps aux|grep '[X] :0' > > But looking for /tmp/.X0-lock is probably the most reliable. Th

[gentoo-user] Re: How to tell Cron X is running or not

2007-11-25 Thread reader
"Andrey Falko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about something like this: retval=`ps aux | grep tty | grep X | awk > '{print $2}'` > > Or retval=`cat /tmp/.X0-lock` > > Or even better: > > if [[ -e "/tmp/.X0-lock" ]];then Yup, both of those should work from cron or anywhere. In my case and pr