RE: Determining if Tomcat is running

[Tim O'Neil]

At 04:27 PM 7/2/2001, you wrote:
>I'm not really familiar with Linux or the ps command.
>Could you give a short description of what this does:
>
>ps -aux --cols 500 |grep $TOMCAT_HOME

execute the process status command using arguments
that tell it to return a list of all the processes
regardless of owner, and widen margins of the logical
output device, masking out any delimited lines that
don't have the contents of the variable $TOMCAT_HOME
as a substring.