NAME
ecs_pid_chk - check whether ECS daemons are running
SYNOPSIS
ecs_pid_chkDESCRIPTION
This program checks whether the ECS daemons are still running. It is intended to be run periodically via a scheduling system such as cron.
RETURN VALUE
Returns a non-zero exit code if a problem with the ECS daemons is detected.
BUGS
Possibly.
SEE ALSO
ecs_chk_com, ecs_scan_mail
AUTHOR
Joel Schneider <jschneid@nmdp.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Copyright (C) 2002-2016 National Marrow Donor Program. All rights reserved.
See LICENSE file for license details.
HISTORY
ECS, the EMDIS Communication System, was originally designed and implemented by the ZKRD (http://www.zkrd.de/). This Perl implementation of ECS was developed by the National Marrow Donor Program (http://www.marrow.org/).
2004-03-12 Canadian Blood Services - Tony Wai Rewritten to support MS Windows support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP
2007-08-01 ZKRD - emdisadm@zkrd.de Added optional path for the ps command on linux systems. Added optional parameter to select a user. This fixes the problem of a wrong positive result in case of more than one running instance of perl ECS. Modified the regular expressions in a way, that only the running daemons will be detected. Otherwise you get an ERROR if you try to stop the daemons e.g. while you work on the daemons source with an editor. Added an additional exit code if there is more than one instance of a daemon.