Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:04:48 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: denyhosts Message-ID: <43FC6F80.7080809@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <43FC380E.9020808@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> References: <43FC380E.9020808@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
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Robin Becker wrote:
> 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
>
If you know the pid, see whether you can deliver a continue signal to it:
try:
os.kill(pid, signal.SIGCONT)
return pid
except OSError:
return STATE_LOCK_EXISTS
--
-Chuck
PS: "STALE_LOCK_EXISTS", maybe...? :-)
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