checking daemon process

[Chern Jian Leaw]

Hi,

Is there a way to check any running daemon processes?

Could someone please show me how ?

Thanks.

[Pete Randall]

What do you want to check it for? You can use ps -ef |grep to check for it's existence. You could use glance to peek inside the process to see what it's doing.

Can you be more specific?

Pete

[Chern Jian Leaw]

Pete,

I'm wanting to check if I have some rsync daemons running or any other process daemons running, in general.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

You could use ps -ef|grep rsync

C.

[T G Manikandan]

If you are running rsync as a daemon then you should find for rsyncd

ps -ef|grep rsyncd


Thanks

[Pete Randall]

In that case, follow Clemens and T G's advice. Use "ps -ef |grep rsyncd". You'll (hopefully) see two lines returned - one is your grep command and the other is the daemon.

Pete

P.S. You can eliminate the extra line by doing "ps -ef |grep rsyncd |grep -v grep".

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Chern:

A more exact way of verifying the presence of a prcoess is to search the process table for its basename:

# UNIX95= ps -C syslogd|awk 'NR>1'

Note that the UNIX95 option is only set for the duration of the command line. A blank (space) follows the equal sign. The argumennt after the 'ps -C' option is the basename of the process you are seeking. Multiple arguments are allowed, too by repeating the '-C 'basename' sequence.

By piping the output to 'awk' as shown, the heading line is suppressed.

If only the process pid is wanted, do this:

# UNIX95= ps -C syslogd|awk 'NR>1 {print $1}'

Regards!

...JRF...