Thread-topic: How to check whether Printer Setup Utility is alive or not?
> ps auxww | grep "Printer Setup Utility"
That is easy enough, thanks.
Is there a way to restart Printer Setup Utility, or even restart it with
arguments like -o addprinter -o ppdlocation=... -o protocol, etc.
Maybe it can only be done from Apple script? (I've never used
Applescript)
George
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Plagge [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:05 PM
> To: George Liu
> Cc: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: How to check whether Printer Setup Utility is alive or
not?
>
> Am 23.03.2006 um 23:12 schrieb George Liu:
> > How to check whether Printer Setup Utility is alive or not?
> >
> > Running ps -e doesn't give me anything.
> Probably not the most elegant way, but what about this:
>
> ps auxww | grep "Printer Setup Utility"
>
> This even runs on my german system as the core executable is a binary
> with a fixed (english) name. But maybe there are better ways to
> determine if PSU is launched...
>
> Hope that helps
> Michael
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