Check if the process is already running

import logging

import time

import sys

import os

from math import degrees

from Acspy.Clients.SimpleClient import PySimpleClient

from Acspy.Util.ACSCorba import getManager

process = os.path.basename(__file__)

running_processes = os.popen("ps aux").read()

counter = 0

for line in running_processes.split('\n'):

    if 'ACSSW/bin/python' in line and process in line:

        counter += 1

    if counter > 1:

        print '%s already running, everything is OK' % process

        sys.exit(0)

logging.basicConfig(

    filename='/home/gavino/logs/receivers.log',

    format='%(asctime)s\t%(message)s')