Checking `tinyproxy` status and finding its port programmatically

[babaric-dev]

I'm working on an automation script involving tinyproxy on multiple deployed machines. In my script, I need to check if tinyproxy is already running and find out the port it's using. If not, start an instance and return the port. However, there's a potential issue: users may have customized their tinyproxy configurations, which could interfere with my automation.

I would appreciate guidance on how to determine if tinyproxy is running and find out the port tinyproxy is using because I cannot find a reliable way to do so. Thanks in advance.

[rofl0r]

netstat -tnlp | grep tinyproxy

[babaric-dev]

This command doesn't work when I am a normal user.

[rmudingay]

Not sure if you managed to solve this. If not, maybe this solves your issue. The following commands work without the need for elevated privileges

displays tinyproxy port ps aux | grep tinyproxy | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'

verify that the port is used by tinyproxy ps -p `ps aux | grep tinyproxy | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'` -o comm=

[rofl0r]

the second column of ps aux prints process id, not port, at least on my implementation.