Very Computer

[ Article crossposted from comp.unix.sco.programmer ]
[ Author was wayne t. watson ]
[ Posted on Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:07:00 GMT ]

[ Article crossposted from comp.windows.x ]
[ Author was wayne t. watson ]
[ Posted on Thu, 9 Nov 1995 01:42:57 GMT ]

How is it possible to determine if a program is running remotely, and
if not fire it up so that I can send to the remote
workstation?  I am thinking of X here, but I suppose the say
method works with about anything.  I suspect a variety of ways
work, but I am looking for something fairly simple, probably from
a shell script.
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-> How is it possible to determine if a program is running remotely, and
-> if not fire it up so that I can send to the remote
-> workstation?  I am thinking of X here, but I suppose the say
-> method works with about anything.  I suspect a variety of ways
-> work, but I am looking for something fairly simple, probably from
-> a shell script.

How about something like this:

#! /usr/bin/csh

( rsh -n remote_machine ps -feal  ) |& grep processName >& /dev/null
if (!($status)) then
        rsh -n remote_machine start_up_process
endif

(I am not sure about the parens above.  But some variation of this might work
for you.  Also, your mileage will vary with the ps args above.  Do a man ps
for the correct args for your OS).
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