Loop thru processes

[CJason]

Two part question...I guess...

Is there a way to loop through the current running processes...looking for a process by name?

In that same vain, can I kick off a process from perl and give it a specific name?

 

[travs69]

What OS are you on?

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[CJason]

Sorry, possibly on either Linux, UNIX or Windows. I was hoping there was a portable way of doing it from within Perl. If not, could you provide any OS specific examples?

 

[travs69]

Well on windows the perl processes all get started as perl.exe (with activestate anyway). On Linux/Unix they start as the program name /path/to/program.pl.

You can do a @proc = `ps -ef`; to get all the processes on a linux/unix box. You can then grep for the program to find it there.

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[PinkeyNBrain]

Check out:

http://yong321.freeshell.org/freeware/pio.html

I've used a portion of the downloadable program quite successfully on the Win OS to look for rogue programs running on PCs. If you are in the market for it, build yourself a database of:
$prog_list{'good'}{$prog_name} = "some comment";
$prog_list{'bad'}{xx} = "some comment";
$prog_list{'dont_know'}{xx} = "some comment";
put this and a copy of perl.exe onto a pen/thumb/flash/other drive and you more or less have the beginning of a traveling road show. (Everyone out there raise your hand/keyboard if you've ever heard the following "Hey - you work with computers? Can you stop by the house and ....")