[mythtv-users] mythbackend pid
Brad DerManouelian
myth at dermanouelian.com
Sat Jun 30 01:52:03 UTC 2007
On Jun 29, 2007, at 6:23 PM, dropax wrote:
> You can use the PID from the pid file to check whether that process is
> still running. Linux ubernewbie here only knows that the "top"
> command
> shows pid, but I'm sure there are other commands which show active
> processes with less overhead or in a more easily parsed format.
This is how I would do it:
[mythtv at mythtv ~]$ perl -e '$pid=`ps -ae | grep mythbackend`; $pid
=~ /^(\d+)/;print $1;'
27989[mythtv at mythtv ~]$
That should print out the pid of the currently running mythbackend
process. If you exit abnormally or $pid doesn't match what the
pidfile says, it's dead. You don't even need the pid, actually. If
that command exits abnormally it means $pid is null and the regex
will bail which means the backend is not running.
To paraphrase The Minutemen: hack! hack! hack!
-Brad
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