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spamassassin with no spamd.pid
I already have a folder in /var/run/ with the name of spamassassin but I can't seem to find spamd.pid anywhere on the server, I already have spamassassin up and running but I need to monitor the ...
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dead parents tree for debugging
$ ps
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
il 17626 1 0 14:02 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/xdg-open file:///media/distrpart/Downloads/utorrent/test.png
I want to ...
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MySQL server quit without updating PID file
I need help on how to start the mysql server.
The problem arise when the root directory was full.
To be able to login to directadmin and start mysql, I added a soft link of the /var/lib/mysql/ to ...
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Can I recover a nano process from a previous terminal?
My system crashed while I was in a nano session with unsaved changes.
When I log back in via SSH I see the nano process still running when I do a ps.
davidparks21@devdb1:/opt/frugg_batch$ ps -ef | ...
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nscd dead but subsys locked
service nsd status
nscd dead but subsys locked
It starts fine but eventually crashes...
server:
logfile: "/var/log/nsd.log"
pidfile: "/var/run/nsd/nsd.pid"
What randomly causes NSD to do this?
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How to find the .pid file for a given process
I'm setting up monit and want to monitor a given python application. Monit does this by looking at the .pid files for processes, but I don't know where this would be.
I also tried creating my own ...
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PID history of a process
What I want to know is PIDs that were assigned to a process before its last 2-3 restart.
Scenario is after this particular process crashes, a log file is generated and PID of the process is ...
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PID file for C program for monit [closed]
How can I create a pid file for a C program to be used in monit, and how do I monitor that C program using monit?
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How to get the PID of a process started by /bin/su -c
I'm writing a init.d-script for an java-app. But the java-app should be run by another user.
(The OS I'm using is Debian Squeeze.)
I already got this:
/bin/su - $USER - c "cd $PATH;echo $PASSWORD | ...
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What's a proper way of checking if a PID is running?
I have a .pid file, and I need to check if the process is running. So far I found two options
kill -0 `cat something.pid`
which prints out an error if the pid isn't running. I know this can be ...
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PID of a command executed in bash
I need a linux / unix command that will execute another command and write the PID of the command it executes to a file... is there such a command?
I am not looking for any scheme that puts processes ...
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How to kill these PHP process safely?
I have installed php5 in ubuntu and WordPress. It can run after installed. But after few days I've found there are lots of process and occupied a lot of memories.
I try to use
ps -aux | grep www-data
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Thread dump to a file
I read that I can find the process ID and then use kill command to save the thread dump to a file. But the following example does not return anything...
# ps aux | grep -i java
wcuser 9136 0.0 ...
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Nagios monitor process by pid file
Is there any possibilty to monitor processes with nagios? I found the check_procs command, which I can't use because it doesn't let me specify a file to read the PID from. Also, I don't seem to find ...
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What is the range of a PID on Linux and Solaris?
What is the maximum and minimum value for a PID (Process ID) on Linux and Solaris?
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How to get pid of just started process
I want to start process (eg. myCommand) and get its pid (to allow to kill it later).
I tried ps and filter by name, but I can not distinguish process by names
myCommand
ps ux | awk ...
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Can start-stop-daemon use environmental variables?
I need to daemonize a Windows app running in Wine, and create a pid in /var/run. Since it requires an X11 session to run, I need to make sure the $DISPLAY variable is set in the running user's ...
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Are .pid files reliable for determining whether a process is running?
Many programs such as sshd create .pid files in /var/run/ that contain their process ID. Are these files reliable for determining whether a process is running? My guess is that these files are ...
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Where is the apache pid file on Gentoo?
I need it to configure Monit, but the path in the sample config file is /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid and it's not there. It's also not anywhere in /etc (at least not with that name).
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Possible to send kill signal to all processes with a given ppid?
I have found myself having to regularly send kill -STOP one million processes, but they all come from the same parent. Is there a smarter way to do this?
