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

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"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
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.  Thanks

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