service script/utility

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:17:26 +0200
Ouattara Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> wrote:

> [snip]
> >> Is there a way to know daemon's status on Ubuntu ?
> > 
> > Generally or regarding Samba? Reg. samba: See my previous answer: 
> > smbstatus.
> 
> I was meaning generally. I would like to make a service wrapper script 
> which will handle the status statement.
> Mandriva's solution was basically to create a "pid" file when the 
> process is on and remove it when they stop the process.

Someone thought of that :-)

peter at prospero:~ $ pidof sshd
5503
peter at prospero:~ $ pidof apache2
5790 5788 5787 5786

and so on.... 

Thus we see for instance:

peter at prospero:~ $ pidof sshd
8928
peter at prospero:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh stop
 * Stopping OpenBSD Secure Shell server...             [ ok ] 
peter at prospero:~ $ pidof sshd
peter at prospero:~ $



Peter