Get my PID

[Willem Kossen]

Hi,
I need a way to get the process ID the script is running under from the
script itself and output it to a pidfile in /var/run. Anyone an idea how to
do this.

Thanks

 

[Gunter Schelfhout]

Hi,
I need a way to get the process ID the script is running under from the
script itself and output it to a pidfile in /var/run. Anyone an idea how
to do this.

Use the variable $$

 

[Gregory Toomey]

Hi,
I need a way to get the process ID the script is running under from the
script itself and output it to a pidfile in /var/run. Anyone an idea how to
do this.

Use $$ . From http://www.rexswain.com/perl5.html
"$$ The process ID of the currently executing Perl program. Altered
(in the child process) by fork."

gtoomey

 

[Willem Kossen]

Use $$ . From http://www.rexswain.com/perl5.html
"$$ The process ID of the currently executing Perl program. Altered
(in the child process) by fork."

gtoomey

thanks that's what i need

Willem

 

[Jürgen Exner]

I need a way to get the process ID the script is running under from
the script itself and output it to a pidfile in /var/run. Anyone an
idea how to do this.

"perldoc perlvar" and scroll down to
$PROCESS_ID
$$ The process number of the Perl running this script. [...]

jue