Questions tagged [pidof]
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Why was pidof and pgrep removed from OpenSuse 15.5?
In openSuse leap 15.5, there are no packages offering pidof?
SysVinit-tools package were part of the OS bundle previosuly, but was removed in 15.5. So, is there any alternates without installing ...
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Running pidof in a function
I want to detect whether my script is already running, so I use this:
pidof -o %PPID -x "$0" >/dev/null && echo 'already running!' && exit 1
That works. But I want it in ...
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pidofproc or pidof working from init.d but not from /usr/sbin
I have a Linux service I'm supporting. It offers the usual start and stop commands. The designer created a wrapper command that is meant to control startup and retries of the main function. The ...
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Why is pidof not working?
In the output of ps aux, I can see the process just fine:
# ps aux | grep diff
root 7787 28.7 0.0 9368 4516 pts/3 D+ 13:56 20:33 diff -qr mnt/mnt/md/ mnt/mnt2/
root 13130 0.0 0.0 ...
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<pidof> Command not showing all Java processes
I noticed that the command in my case, is not listing all Java processes. If I run pidof java I get one single pid as a response. On the other hand, if I run ps aux | grep [j]ava I get a three ...
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Process name 'masked' by /usr/bin/python and /bin/su
I'm trying to use the pidof command to see my script is already running as I only want this executable if the script is not already running, however, it seems the pidof command is not returning the ...
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How do I check for the existence of a process without a failed exit code being returned?
I’m using Amazon Linux. I want to start a process provided one isn’t running already. This is a bash script I embed within a Jenkins Maven job. So I have
pids=$(pidof /usr/bin/Xvfb)
if [ ! -n "$...
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Find ProcessID - pidof not working
I need to try and find the ProcessId of a process.
Initially I was doing:
application="/home/user/apps/appName.app"
appPid=$(pidof -x $application)
This worked fine.
However, it now turns out that ...
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How can I format output of shell command
I combine top and pidof command:
top -p $(pidof <process_name>)
If pidof <process_name> return one id top command works. But if pidof <process_name> more than one ids top command ...
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What could be happening between pidof and kill to cause "no such process"?
I've inherited quite a bit of code and am looking at a cron job that restarts a service once an hour, no other scripts touch this process and this code is ran.
#The name of the process has been ...
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Are there any alternatives to pidof? (smaller footprint)
Well, I've just found out that with extensive usage of pidof in very short intervals, the seemingly tiny tool can be a great CPU hog. (Source: top)
On my older machine, it can easily reach 30 percent ...
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Why pidof and pgrep are behaving differently?
I have a init script in /etc/init.d/myservice for initialize a service like this:
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start() {
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daemon /usr/sbin/myservice
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}
stop() {
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pgrep myservice
pidof myservice
ps -ef ...
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How to poll existence of a background script correctly
I have a problem with the following kind of script:
#!/bin/sh
long_running_script.sh &
while [ `pidof long_running_script.sh` ]
do
echo "."
sleep 1
done
The sript will start ...
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Using `pidof` with `sh -c`
I was wondering why this command line does not print pidof sh:
$ sh -c "var=`pidof sh` ; echo \$var; ps -H"
This one prints 123 as expected
$ sh -c "var=123 ; echo \$var; ps -H"
I am on Ubuntu Linux....
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