Python, how to tell if screen is running.
- by Joe Spoon
Hello, I am very new to programming and am trying to run a python code to see if the screen program is running and if it is then to not run the rest of the code. This is what I have and it's not working.
!/usr/bin/python
import os
var1 = os.system ('screen -r /root/screenlog/screen.log')
fd = open("/root/screenlog/screen.log")
content = fd.readline()
while content:
if content == "There is no screen to be resumed.":
os.system ('/etc/init.d/tunnel.sh')
print "The tunnel is now active."
else:
print "The tunnel is running."
fd.close()
I know there are probably several things here that don't need to be and quite a few that I'm missing. I will be running this program in cron. Thanks for any help.
