RE: apache run status: how to tell as non-root user (on *nix)?

[Mike Schlottman <mschlott@xxxxxxx>]

If you have httpd running as a service in Centos, you can run service httpd status.   It will return a status code of 0 if it is running.

 

% service httpd status > /dev/null

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  httpd.service

 

% echo $?

0

 

From: Tom Browder [mailto:tom.browder@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 7:54 AM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [users@httpd] apache run status: how to tell as non-root user (on *nix)?

 

I need to programatically determine whether httpd is running or not, whether I'm root or not. The only reliable way I have found is to use the system command 'ps -C httpd' and grep the results.

 

Is there a better way?

 

Thanks.

 

Best regards,

 

-Tom