Service status. What's the right way?

skarcha

Hello,

I’m running pimatic on a PC, not a RaspberryPi, and I would like to get the status of a service (a init.d/* program); know whether it’s running or not, and to have contextualized buttons, so if the service is stopped, a “Start” button should be shown. If the service is running, two buttons should be shown: “Stop” or “Restart”.

Of course, the “service name” could be set by an entry config per device, so I could control each service I want.

Thanks for answers…

sebastienvg

@skarcha I’d use ps -aux |grep service_you_want_to_know_about if it returns a PID beside the grep command itself then it’s up.

incmve

I am using this so my heating is turned of when pimatic is not running.

#!/bin/sh
SERVICE='pimatic'
 
if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null
then
    echo "$SERVICE service running, everything is fine"
    date
else
    echo "$SERVICE is not running"	| gpio mode 5 out && gpio write 5 0
    echo "$SERVICE is not running!" | echo "Failed" >> /home/pi/log/failed.log
    echo "$SERVICE is not running!" | sudo service pimatic restart
    date
fi