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sde · 02-25-2003, 08:21 AM

On my game servers, I have a stats program written in perl running in the background. It listens for log information that is sent from Half-Life.

Since the perl script runs in the background, it is difficult to determine if it is running unless I ssh in and execute:

Code:

ps aux |grep hlstats.pl

so now i want to make a script that i can view from a web page that verifies that the process is running.

here is how i start the script:

Code:

-nohup ./hlstats.pl &

i'd prefer to be able to do this all in php, however i haven't been able to get info back from an exec() command in php.

can anyone suggest what they think is the best way to accomplish this?

02-25-2003, 08:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
sde Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: us.ca Posts: 4,475	checking if a process exists On my game servers, I have a stats program written in perl running in the background. It listens for log information that is sent from Half-Life. Since the perl script runs in the background, it is difficult to determine if it is running unless I ssh in and execute: Code: ps aux \|grep hlstats.pl so now i want to make a script that i can view from a web page that verifies that the process is running. here is how i start the script: Code: -nohup ./hlstats.pl & i'd prefer to be able to do this all in php, however i haven't been able to get info back from an exec() command in php. can anyone suggest what they think is the best way to accomplish this?