Jedy Wang wrote:
> Hi Phi,
> 
> On my system, 'pgrep -f gnome-power-manager' returns the pid of
> gnome-power-manager.

Yes, that works, but it will also pick up the pid of someone doing
"vi gnome-power-manager.dbg" :)

Phi

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jedy
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 22:47 -0700, Phi Tran wrote:
>> "pgrep gnome-power-manager" doesn't work so I searched using "pgrep -f
>> -P 1 gnome-power-manager".  Without the -f option, pgrep compares to
>> the
>> execuatable name in psinfo, but psinfo doesn't have the entire name,
>> just "gnome-power-man".  I thought matching to the init PPID was more
>> unique than "pgrep gnome-power-man" since another executable could 
>> possibly start with that string.  It's probably unlikely that another
>> executable will start with "gnome-power-man" so maybe that
>> is a good enough fix.
>>
>> Phi
>>
> 


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