[SOLVED] How to check if command line php is running or not?

[freephoneid]

Hi,

    I've a command line PHP file, say abc.php

Now, my web application file needs to check if abc.php is running or not. How can I do that?

 

    Basically, I want to check if abc.php is running or not. How can I do it from another PHP which will be invoked through web based GUI which is using Apache?

 

Thanks!

[trq]

Depends on your os. On Linux I would grep ps. eg;

 

ps aux | grep 'abc.php'

[freephoneid]

Hi,

    I think I did not clearly mention it in the question....I want to check this through PHP program. How can I do it in PHP?? Is there any PHP command which can tell me if another PHP is running or not? btw, I'm using Linux

 

Thanks!

[samshel]

thorpe meant use a combination of

 

exec and this command

 

like

 

exec("ps aux | grep 'abc.php'", $return);
print_r($return);

[trq]

Use exec (or related functions) to execute the shell command I posted via php.

[freephoneid]

I think I found the better approach....I would use posix_kill & getmypid command to check if its running....thanks anyways....

[samshel]

i think getmypid will give u process id of the current script instance that u r running, if u run the same script through another terminal, you will not get pid of that. not sure, but u can confirm.

 

just check if this is what u want.