benson_james@yahoo.com wrote:
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Hi folks,
>
Im trying to write a simple php script. Basically all i want it to do
is detect if a process is running or not then just set a variable to
Running or Stopped.
>
Its running on linux, ive already written one for for some processes
that leave pid files but this daemon doesnt leave a pid file.
>
Can anyone help please. Thanks
exec('pidof processname') will return the id of a running process, if
there's more then one of the process it returns a list of ids separated
by spaces.
Regards
Tim
