Summary - How to tell if a process is active

[michael.p.lindner]

In article <763 at ctisbv.UUCP>, pim at ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
> the lockfile to find out if the machine has been rebooted
> since the resource claim. What is the most obvious and portable
> way to do this?
> 
> Thanks for any responses.
> Pim.

The most obvious way I can think of is to execute "who -b" which prints the
last boot time of the machine.  If this has changed, the machine has been
rebooted.

Mike Lindner
attunix!mpl
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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