Perl interface to Unix ps?

I'm writing a Perl script that is supposed to find the PIDs of all
the running versions of a program and send them a SIGUSR1.  As this
description suggests, the script is meant for a Unix platform, but
it could be Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.

The only way I can think of to get the PIDs for all the desired
processes is to scan the output of a suitable 'system "ps -blah"'
call, but there are many versions of ps around, each with its own
syntax and output format.  Does anyone know of a Perl interface
for ps? (I searched perldoc -q ps, man POSIX, and CPAN for ps but
didn't find anything; I'm hoping that what I'm looking for exists
in some less obvious place.)

TIA,

jill


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J Krugman wrote:
> I'm writing a Perl script that is supposed to find the PIDs of all
> the running versions of a program and send them a SIGUSR1.  As this
> description suggests, the script is meant for a Unix platform, but
> it could be Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.
>
> The only way I can think of to get the PIDs for all the desired
> processes is to scan the output of a suitable 'system "ps -blah"'
> call, but there are many versions of ps around, each with its own
> syntax and output format.  Does anyone know of a Perl interface
> for ps? (I searched perldoc -q ps, man POSIX, and CPAN for ps but
> didn't find anything; I'm hoping that what I'm looking for exists
> in some less obvious place.)

I've had success with Proc::ProcessTable
(http://search.cpan.org/~durist/Proc-ProcessTable-0.39/).  By its
reviews it seems that others have as well.  If the Unix that you run
isn't supported (darwin, nonstop-ux windows, linux, solaris, aix,
hpux, freebsd, irix, dec_osf, bsdi, netbsd, unixware 7.x and
SunOS are the currently supported platforms) there is a PORTING document
that you might find useful.

One of the reviews says, "Never need to parse 'ps' commands again".
Joy!  ;-)

-- Douglas

J Krugman <jkrugman345@yahbitoo.com> wrote:
> I'm writing a Perl script that is supposed to find the PIDs of all
> the running versions of a program and send them a SIGUSR1.  As this
> description suggests, the script is meant for a Unix platform, but
> it could be Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.

As the risk of upsetting others in clpm, since it's for a *IX platform,
why write this in perl? This will send SIGUSR1 to any process called
"program":

kill -USR1 `ps -e | awk '$NF == "program" {print $1}'`

YMMV depending on which variant of ps you have (i.e. whether you're on
a SysV or BSD derived platform), but then the perl alternatives seem to
struggle with platform dependence, too, as they appear to depend on the
existence of /proc.

Chris

In article <nrar92-4qb.ln1@moldev.cmagroup.co.uk>,
<chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> wrote:

> J Krugman <jkrugman345@yahbitoo.com> wrote: 
>
> As the risk of upsetting others in clpm, since it's for a *IX platform,
> why write this in perl? This will send SIGUSR1 to any process called
> "program":
>
>     kill -USR1 `ps -e | awk '$NF == "program" {print $1}'`
>
> YMMV depending on which variant of ps you have (i.e. whether you're on
> a SysV or BSD derived platform), but then the perl alternatives seem to
> struggle with platform dependence, too, as they appear to depend on the
> existence of /proc.

There is also the Unix killall utility:

killall -USR1 programname


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ici même:J Krugman <jkrugman345@yahbitoo.com> a écrit
> I'm writing a Perl script that is supposed to find the PIDs of all
> the running versions of a program and send them a SIGUSR1.  As this
> description suggests, the script is meant for a Unix platform, but
> it could be Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.
>
...
>
> TIA,
>
> jill

for that purpose I use Proc::ProcessTable;

HTH

-- dominix

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:24:40 +0000, J Krugman wrote:

> I'm writing a Perl script that is supposed to find the PIDs of all
> the running versions of a program and send them a SIGUSR1.  As this
> description suggests, the script is meant for a Unix platform, but
> it could be Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @proclist=();

open BS,"ps -ef|" or die "Cannot open BS:$!\n";
while (<BS> ) {
my @fields=split /\s+/;
push @proclist,$fields[1];
}
kill 10, @proclist
$

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