From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to check postgres running or not ?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:33:00 -0400
Message-ID: <m3llf5pvw3.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com> (raw)
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Clinging to sanity, worik@noggon.com (Worik) mumbled into her beard:
> [snip]
>> Just to enforce the test is better looking for the entire executable
>> path:
>> ps aux | grep /usr/bin/postmaster | grep -v grep
>>
>
> Does not work for me!
>
> worik@stolberg:~$ ps aux | grep /usr/bin/postmaster | grep -v grep
> worik@stolberg:~$ ps aux | grep postmaster | grep -v grep
> postgres 670 0.1 0.6 8544 1688 pts/1 S 12:33 0:00
> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster
> worik@stolberg:~$
>
> So...
> " ps aux | grep postmaster | grep -v grep "
> is more reliable(?)
There's a very slightly clever modification that gets rid of the extra
grep...
Try..
[appropriate ps command for your platform] | egrep '[p]ostmaster'
That egrep _won't_ match its own command line.
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He doesn't have much of a reputation, or so I've heard.
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