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Old 10-29-2004, 12:45 PM   #1
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Question Is there a way to make a program create a pid file?


I have done some searching and can't seem to find an answer to this. There are some programs that I have running that I would like to start up again using cron if they were to crash. However, I don't know how to check whether or not a program is running unless there is a pid file(if there is a way to do this without using a pid file that would be good too). So my question is is there a way to force a program to create a pid file? Thanks for the help.
 
Old 10-29-2004, 12:59 PM   #2
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Atleast in debian there is a program called "start-stop-daemon" that does that.

Also you can do pidfile creation manually, eg.
Code:
sleep 60s &
echo $! > pidfile.of.sleep
 
  


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