Hi Marcus,
You can do the following (with bash):
java packageName.className 2>&1 > fileName
And then do a
ps ...|awk ...|grep ...|wc -l
after a sleep with a grep perhaps? Or you can have your program create
some kind of lock file. In the latter case you first delete the lock
file, then
No, you can't detect when the program is running in background (thinking in a generic
environment).
But you can use a Log application to redirect yor System.out to a network connection.
And, you can use the syslogd client existing in Giant Java Tree...
I've seen some sample in JavaTutorial, but
