services on linux

[Timothy Smith]

Martin Franklin wrote:

>Christoph Haas wrote:
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>>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:57:26AM -0500, pt python wrote:
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>>>im moving from the windows world to the linux world and i need to make
>>>a python script to see if a service is instaled (ex: apache), if it is
>>>running or stoped and to start/stop a service like apache or mysql.
>>>Theres an API on windows to manage services and i need to know how to
>>>do that on linux. Can anyone help me with the module and API to work
>>>with services on linux?
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>>Unless you really want to do that in Python. It's just a matter of "ps"
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>>Example: ps ax | grep apache
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>On RedHat based distro's (fedora in my case)
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>/sbin/service sshd status
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>gives me (as a normal user) the status of my ssh server not sure if 
>other distro's have this...
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>>>by the way, im developing a app, maybe multi-plataform, to install and
>>>manage several open source packages like apache, mySQL, phpwebadmin,
>>>phpnuke, etc... if anyone have nice ideais i apreciate that..
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>>That's usually the Linux distribution's job to handle the installed
>>packages. Some distributions do that better than others
>>(<cough>Debian<cough>). ;) Or what did you mean when you said "install
>>and manage"?
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>yeah you really need to look at the tools you have been given with your 
>distro, rpm, deb, etc for the best way.  If it's pure python then the 
>distutils package (in the python standard library) may help, also I 
>noticed that PyInstaller 1.0 has just been released
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i'd be very careful using a distro specific tool. it's no good if it 
only works on redhat.

>http://pyinstaller.hpcf.upr.edu/pyinstaller
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>and has options to create single file installers for Linux / IRIX and 
>Windows...
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