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From: mpl@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (michael.p.lindner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Summary - How to tell if a process is active
Summary: who -b
Keywords: process kill ps
Message-ID: <951@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 89 14:18:49 GMT
References: <2848@infocenter.UUCP> <763@ctisbv.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <763@ctisbv.UUCP>, pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
> the lockfile to find out if the machine has been rebooted
> since the resource claim. What is the most obvious and portable
> way to do this?
> 
> Thanks for any responses.
> Pim.

The most obvious way I can think of is to execute "who -b" which prints the
last boot time of the machine.  If this has changed, the machine has been
rebooted.

Mike Lindner
attunix!mpl
AT&T Bell Laboratories
190 River Rd.
Summit, NJ 07901