[PLUG] Finding application parent PID?

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Daniloff <alex at daniloff.com> writes:

Alex> The question is very simple :)

Alex> Some applications have .pid files with the process id.  Look for
Alex> example into /var/run directory The other pid's are listed as
Alex> directories in /proc.  There is a file cmdline in the each pid
Alex> directory, which shows with what command an application or a
Alex> process was launched.

Alex> Now I want to determine pid of an application or a process
Alex> without using 'ps -ef|grep appl_name' or scanning all
Alex> /proc/proc_id/cmdline files.  pidof appl_name doesn't provide a
Alex> definite answer all the time.

Alex> Is there any other way to find pid of application by the name of
Alex> application or the name of its executable file?

yeah, launch the program that you care about in such a way that the
pid is recorded somewhere.

If you don't like typing the command that gives you what you want,
make a shell script out of it.

Am I not understanding what you are after?  What characteristic of
'pidof foo' doesn't work?  Examples?

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