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Re: how to test whether a program is running?

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> Jun 04, 2005
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Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> Mario Steele wrote:
> > 
> > Jerry Story wrote:
> > > 
> > > How can I test whether a program is running?
> > > For example how can I test whether Mozilla is running?
> > > 
> > 
> > It depends on what Operating System you are refering to.  Windows or Linux.
> 
> First Linux. Then later maybe Windows, so the program will work on both
> Linux and Windows.
> 

If you run "mozilla &", you'll get a pid, alongside a few other things written
into standard output... Then you can use ps to check what programs are running
and their pid...

I'm not 100% sure how it'd be done, try redirecting the output from "mozilla &"
to a file, and check the man page of ps... but you'll have to poll the output of
ps in regular intervals...

I can't check it either, I'm going away for the weekend and I don't have access
to linux atm. I hope this will help.

Regards, Alexander Toresson