----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 1:47
PM
Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users] Help:
Daemon Status
Is it a general purpose process, or a custom
process, e.g. will any of us here have heard of it.
Does this process write log files?
Does it generate SNMP trap messages, Does the
process try to communicate with anything else?
At the end of the day, if the process in question
doesn't have any method of passing on information you will simply be
limited to checking that the process exists and is running (under linux this
would be ensuring the process isn't a zombie, and is alive.)
I'm not sure if you can get the parent pid of the
process in question, without resorting to using a system command to 'ps' and
grepping the parent pid out, maybe someone has written some better methods by
now......
To check if a process is alive you can use the
perl 'kill' command
you will first need to capture the pid of the
process in question, then :-
if (kill 0=> $pid)
{
#die "process with PID $pid
already has a lock on this file $LOCKFILE\n";
}
else
{
#process is dead
}
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 1:18
PM
Subject: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Help:
Daemon Status
I am trying to monitor a system process. I do not know where
to start.
Ronald Mundell
Nedcor
BG3
881-3751(011)
0834111107
-----Original Message-----
From:
$Bill Luebkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 November 2002 02:42
To: Mundell, R. (Ronald)
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Perl-unix-users] Help: Daemon Status
Mundell, R. (Ronald) wrote:
>
Good Day all
>
>
>
> I want to monitor
a daemon for activity and uptime. I do not know where
> to start. If someone out there knows how to do this and are able
to help
> me, it would be greatly
appreciated.
Pretty vague requirements. Something simple would be
to have the
daemon write the time to a log file
periodically. Maybe have a
separate pid file
with the start time in it or combine the two files.
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