John Oliver wrote: > I was looking for a way to keep track of which PID is being used by a > given instance (among multiple instances) of a program, and found: > > http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Writing_Init_Scripts > > That page refers to startproc, killproc, and checkproc, which are > apparantly SUSe-specific commands. I'm looking for the Red Hat > equivalents, or whatever the Red Hat way would be to write a PID file > when starting a process.
daemon & echo $! > /var/run/daemon.pid The /etc/init.d/functions set of init functions seems to rely upon the daemon to 1) background itself and 2) write its own pidfile. In cases where it does not, is used the /sbin/pidof command to locate it. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
