On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Chirag Anand <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sudev Barar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have made a script that starts netcat repeatedly in listen mode. Once > > incoming data is started the script fires off another NC instance and > > previous NC process then dies when data string ends. I want to count how > > many netcat processes were launched during a particular testing period. > > > > One option is to build a counter before firing up each instance of > netcat. > > Any other method? I would not like to touch the netcat launch script > right > > now. > > > > If this is what you're looking for: `ps -aef | grep netcat | wc -l` ? > But this will give you one extra result, as `grep netcat` will also be > counted as another running process. You can make necessary modifications > to > it and get the correct result. Hope that helps. > > -- > You missed his question. He does not want to know how many netcats are running, he wants to know that between time T and time T+Delta how many netcats were fired. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
