Hi. I'm trying to write a script that will automate the process of doing DMOZ dumps. Basically, the process would be;
1) Run itself every 30 mins (to see what is going on with the server, i.e if nph-import is running)
2) Check to see if the service is running (nph-import.cgi)
3) If it has stopped, the process is assumed to have been completed. Then it will execute SQL queries to dump all the required tables into a SQL dump on my server.
4) Once the dump has been done all of the info will be removed, and a new cron file will be written to work on the new category.
5) The above will continue until the end of all the categories (i'm estimating it will take a week, possibly 1 and a half to complete the whole directory). Then the process will not be run again until 2 weeks after, which will then re-import the new content RDF file and start the process again on the new dumps.
However, the problem I am finding is that I'm not sure how to work out if a process is running. I know it must be possible to do with a command line, as WebMin uses something to show all the running processes on one of its admin page.
Does anyone have any ideas on this one?
Thanks
Andy (mod)
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1) Run itself every 30 mins (to see what is going on with the server, i.e if nph-import is running)
2) Check to see if the service is running (nph-import.cgi)
3) If it has stopped, the process is assumed to have been completed. Then it will execute SQL queries to dump all the required tables into a SQL dump on my server.
4) Once the dump has been done all of the info will be removed, and a new cron file will be written to work on the new category.
5) The above will continue until the end of all the categories (i'm estimating it will take a week, possibly 1 and a half to complete the whole directory). Then the process will not be run again until 2 weeks after, which will then re-import the new content RDF file and start the process again on the new dumps.
However, the problem I am finding is that I'm not sure how to work out if a process is running. I know it must be possible to do with a command line, as WebMin uses something to show all the running processes on one of its admin page.
Does anyone have any ideas on this one?
Thanks
Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
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