Re: Check if dbus program is running

[Fred James <fredjame fredjame cnc net>]

Kevin Anthony wrote:
> Hello
> What would be the best way, in C, to check if a dbus program was
> running, before i ran a dbus command against it?
>
>   
Lost me ... at the system level, ps -ef (or some similar call) piped to 
grep dbus
   ps -ef | grep dbus | grep -v grep
will probably show several hits ... anywhere near what you are talking 
about?
Regards
Fred James

[fredjame@localhost ~]$ ps -ef | grep dbus | grep -v grep
14        5631     1  0 01:10 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon --system
fredjame  7403     1  0 07:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch 
--exit-with-session --sh-syntax
fredjame  7404     1  0 07:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon 
--fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 8 --session
[fredjame@localhost ~]$