• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph

Description:
In various places the documentation indicates that the "ps -ef | grep httpd" or "ps -ef | grep apache" commands can be used to see if apache is active.

I find, however, that these commands never show our apache processes -- even when OPAC is working and there obviously *are* apache processes.

Resolution:
If the process text is too long, such as the following:

040 S aleph 24530 1 0 75 0 - 1056 schedu Aug04 ? 00:00:00 /exlibris/aleph/a16_1/product/local/apache/bin/httpd -d /exlibris/aleph/u16_1/al

040 S aleph 2472 24530 0 75 0 - 1135 schedu 12:29 ? 00:00:00 /exlibris/aleph/a16_1/product/local/apache/bin/httpd -d /exlibris/aleph/u16_1/al

040 S aleph 2476 24530 0 75 0 - 1139 schedu 12:29 ? 00:00:00 /exlibris/aleph/a16_1/product/local/apache/bin/httpd -d /exlibris/aleph/u16_1/al

then "ps -ef" does not work. You need to use "ps -efl" instead. The "l" is for "long".

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013