Checking if process still running?

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If you’re doing it in php, why not use php code:

In the running program:

define('PIDFILE', '/var/run/myfile.pid');

file_put_contents(PIDFILE, posix_getpid());
function removePidFile() {
    unlink(PIDFILE);
}
register_shutdown_function('removePidFile');

Then, in the watchdog program, all you need to do is:

function isProcessRunning($pidFile="/var/run/myfile.pid") {
    if (!file_exists($pidFile) || !is_file($pidFile)) return false;
    $pid = file_get_contents($pidFile);
    return posix_kill($pid, 0);
}

Basically, posix_kill has a special signal 0 that doesn’t actually send a signal to the process, but it does check to see if a signal can be sent (the process is actually running).

And yes, I do use this quite often when I need long running (or at least watchable) php processes. Typically I write init scripts to start the PHP program, and then have a cron watchdog to check hourly to see if it’s running (and if not restart it)…

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