This one time, at band camp, Michael Lake wrote:
>What do folks use to determine if a process is running?
service x status
ps -C process
pidof
kill -0 $pid
I use the last one in a test harness to wait until postgres has
started up:
# this am teh sucks
i=0
max=60
until "$PSQL" -X -h $work template1 </dev/null 2>/dev/null ; do
i=$(($i + 1))
if [ $i -ge $max ]; then
break
fi
if kill -0 "$postmaster_pid" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
: still starting up
else
break
fi
sleep 1
done
if ! kill -0 "$postmaster_pid" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
cat $work/postmaster.log
no_result
fi
(probably doens't answer your question though :)
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