I’ve recently written a Python module to change the process title in a portable way: check https://github.com/dvarrazzo/py-setproctitle It is a wrapper around the code used by PostgreSQL to perform the title change. It is currently tested against Linux and Mac OS X: Windows (with limited functionality) and BSD portings are on the way. Edit: as … Read more
To check if Zookeeper is accessible. One method is to simply telnet to the proper port and execute the stats command. root@host:~# telnet localhost 2181 Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to myhost. Escape character is ‘^]’. stats Zookeeper version: 3.4.3-cdh4.0.1–1, built on 06/28/2012 23:59 GMT Clients: Latency min/avg/max: 0/0/677 Received: 4684478 Sent: 4687034 Outstanding: 0 Zxid: 0xb00187dd0 … Read more
You can use the fuser command, like: fuser file_name You will receive a list of processes using the file. You can use different flags with it, in order to receive a more detailed output. You can find more info in the fuser’s Wikipedia article, or in the man pages.