Curt Gilroy wrote:
I am starting a process with the system command via a php page. I
want to put a button on the same page which will let the user kill
the process by clicking that button. To do this, I need to know the
process ID. I could grep for it, but that also returns the grep
command. How can I make PHP tell me the process ID of a process I
started? It seems as if this would not be a problem but I guess I am
missing something.
Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this little problem!
Add another grep to the command line, perhaps? Like this:
# ps aux | grep processname | grep -v grep
Excerpt from the manual entry for grep:
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-v, --invert-match
Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines.
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So adding "grep -v grep" will go through that already grepped list and
return the lines that *don't* contain the process for grep.
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