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systemctl seems better in general, but in Windows Subsystem for Linux (v1), that won't work. +1 for this, which works well enough for me in WSL. If you don't want to use $?, you could also put, e.g., pidof cron in the test directly or do cron_pid=$(pidof cron) and use it later. The output is an empty string if the service isn't running, so one can test for it like if [ -z $cron_pid ]; then dosomething; fi

Nathan
– Nathan

2020-01-25 15:00:44 +00:00
Commented Jan 25, 2020 at 15:00
For those visiting from the future (As I am), or from another planetary system in the universe. Version 0.67.6 and higher of the Microsoft Store version of WSL now supports SystemD See this blog post

Paul Stoner
– Paul Stoner

2023-02-10 20:27:04 +00:00
Commented Feb 10, 2023 at 20:27

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