X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:21:54 +1000 From: Brian Salter-Duke To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: ps command Message-ID: <20070522052154.GA396@SALTERDUKE2> Reply-To: Brian Salter-Duke Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Apologies for asking this. I asked it many years ago and did not get an answer that allowed me to progress. I can not find the earlier replies but of course cygwin has improved since then. I have a program that runs in the background a bit like at daemon. It is called 'qseek'. I want to know whether it is running from a script. On linux I run ps in the script and grep the output to see if 'qseek' is there. On cygwin all I get is this line:- 1688 1 1876 3644 0 1004 15:03:03 /usr/bin/perl because qseek is a perl script. Is there any way that I can get output of the running processes that will include the text, 'qseek'? Or can anyone suggest a work around. I need a script to be able to find out whether qseek is running, in order to start it if it is not, and leave it running if it is. I am trying again to get this code working correctly on cygwin as well as linux. Regards, Brian. -- Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) b_duke AT bigbond DOT net DOT au Post: 626 Melbourne Rd, Spotswood, VIC, 3015, Australia Phone 03-93992847. http://www.salter-duke.bigpondhosting.com/brian/index.htm Honorary Researcher Fellow, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Univ. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/