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I'm trying out the denyhosts port; it starts up and performs as expected,
but it won't recognize a running instance as this python if test fails. Is there 
a more freebsd way for python to find out if a given process is running?

     if os.access(os.path.join("/proc", str(pid)), os.F_OK):
         return pid
     else:
         return STATE_LOCK_EXISTS

-- 
Robin Becker