Hi - Yes, I agree ps -aux.
To do it from perl, use bacticks: #!c:\perl\bin\perl -w use strict; my @processes = `ps -aux`; print "$_" for @processes; @processes has _everything_ about your currently running processes (depenging on your permission level). Aloha => Beau. -----Original Message----- From: Guy Davis [mailto:guy@;yournaturewithin.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Grabbing a process ID If I'm using the system command on a linux box is there any way to get the process id returned? I am calling another perl script and it has failed occasionally from errors that I have not yet tracked down. What I want to do is grab and store the process id. Then check to see if that process id is still running at a later date when the script is re-run. Another question is there a way to grab the currently running processes on a linux system and parse through them in perl? Has anyone done this or do you know where I might get the code to do this? Thanks Guy Davis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
