From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 5:29:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B7B37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:29:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from apache.metrocom.ru (apache.metrocom.ru [195.5.128.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB2343F1E for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:29:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@metrocom.ru) Received: from apache.metrocom.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apache.metrocom.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0ODTq8F004808; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:29:52 +0300 (MSK) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by apache.metrocom.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h0ODTpO3004805; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:29:51 +0300 (MSK) X-Authentication-Warning: apache.metrocom.ru: alex owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:29:51 +0300 (MSK) From: Varshavchick Alexander To: Josh Brooks Cc: Subject: Re: differentiating apache children from parents ? In-Reply-To: <20030124052109.R64423-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you can look at the parent pid of the process in question wether it is 1 or not: ps xa -oppid -p _PID_ But depending on what you're trying to do afterwards (for example kill the process if you determine by some external script that there are too many apaches running and you're not satisfied with the native apache process maintanance mechanism), there can be better ways... Regards ---- Alexander Varshavchick, Metrocom Joint Stock Company Phone: (812)118-3322, 118-3115(fax) On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Josh Brooks wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:22:00 -0800 (PST) > From: Josh Brooks > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: differentiating apache children from parents ? > > > Hello, > > Is there any way to tell, simply from /proc info and/or ps output if a > certain httpd PID is a child or the parent ? > > If yes, is this method applicable on any OS (linux) ? > > thanks. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message