You can fuser the app's log before attaching to it, to see if you are already running, without additional files and fuss. I am not much of a perl jocey, but maybe you can do the sam check inside PERL; in ksh, it might look like this: ---------- Post updated at 10:48 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:31 AM ----------
The pid file is popular, but you still need to ps -fp | grep or the like to ensure the pid in use is your app.
A tcp socket listener makes a nice mutex. You could assign a thread to providing a simple html status report within the app.
Using 'fuser' or the PERL equivalent on the app log file has several advantages and challenges:
You find any children still running. You might want to purge them and restart if the main app is not running.
No extra pid file.
subshells make the count go up.
users browsing the log may look like the app or like children, especially as the log path often contains the app name. (Maybe capitalize part of the app name in the log name?)
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I am writing a shell script (ksh, solaris 5.8).
Script is X.sh
variables declared:
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If I kick off the script from the command line as follows:
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log()
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select count(*) from EMP;
!
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Is there any way, to login into a website using Shell/Perl command/script?
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Sorry if it is a duplicate post. I have not got any reference about this anywhere.
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Bash on Oracle Linux 6.3
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#### I actually want some logging mechanism here which will redirect the output to a log file
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