[Wrapper-user] Getting service status on Unix

[Mark L. <mid...@ve...>]

I'm using Runtime.exec() Java method to execute the Unix script that was 
re-named to the name of my app. Thus I use

String[] cmd = new String[]{myPath + "/myAppName" ,"status"};
Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);

I can capture the standard output from process, and get a verbal 
description of the status of the service. However I'd prefer to get an 
integer or byte status, the way it works with Windows (executing 
wrapper.exe, not the script). So instead of capturing standard out from 
the Process created by exec(), I use

int result = process.waitFor();

When I do this, result = 1 if the service is not running, 0 if the 
service is running. (If I get the status of executing "wrapper -qs 
../conf/wrapper.conf" as with Windows, I get result = 1 no matter if the 
service is up or down.) I don't see this status result documented 
anywhere for the Unix script. Is this behavior I can rely on, or should 
I parse the standard output from process to determine the status of the 
service? I'm trying to avoid the latter, because I'm having trouble 
processing the standard output from process when I invoke exec() from 
the Event Dispatch Thread, which I need to do.

-Mark