Hello,
I was wondering is there a specific process I could look for to tell if my suse linux machine is still booting up. I have a monitor process and it's detecting problems with processes because I think the machine is still booting up and has yet to start everything up. Thanks for any help.
Maybe check the output of dmesg, what usually is the content of last line or number of lines. But normally I watch a box when it is booting until it is back up and start the applications that did not come up with inittab/init.d.
It depends on what is your init.d/rc.<n>/inittab.
Hi,
acctually there is no specific boot process.
if you want to know exactly when your system hat completed booting you may add an additional entry to your init scripts
for ex.
/etc/init.d/endboot
#!/bin/bash
sleep 3600 &
ln -s /etc/init.d/endboot /etc/rc[your Runlevel].d/S99endboot
this will start a sllep process in backgroud which you will see for 1 hour in you process list (ps). the execution time is the exactly when your system has finished booting
if you need detailed information on your system boot see "Bootchart"