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Nothing has happened on this question in over 10 months. It's time for cleanup!

My recommendation, which I will post in the Cleanup topic area, is to
accept answer by akshayxx [grade B] (only a referral, only answers part).

PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS COMMENT AS AN ANSWER!

jmcg
EE Cleanup Volunteer

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hello experts<br />
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I am in need of determing if a particular process is running by my library, if it is then great I will continue on, if not I want launch a specific application... Is there an easy way or function that I can use to determine this?<br />
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Also is there an easy way that I can redirect stderr to a file? More specifically I am using perror() and it writes error message to stderr, well I am writing a daemon and I want to log all errors to a log file.. Is there an easy way to redirect stderr and perror to a file?<br />
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Thanks in adavance<br />
echard<br />
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PS sorry for the low points... I am starting out on this site and only have 75 points.
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hello experts

I am in need of determing if a particular process is running by my library, if it is then great I will continue on, if not I want launch a specific application... Is there an easy way or function that I can use to determine this?

Also is there an easy way that I can redirect stderr to a file? More specifically I am using perror() and it writes error message to stderr, well I am writing a daemon and I want to log all errors to a log file.. Is there an easy way to redirect stderr and perror to a file?

Thanks in adavance
echard

PS sorry for the low points... I am starting out on this site and only have 75 points.

C function for finding specific running process

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