Question

We have soap services running on our unix box (local network with AFS). Sometimes our services are down and our front end developers, due to lack of knowledge of unix find it difficult to restart the services. Is it possible to build a UI(C#-winforms) which will login to the Unix box and run scripts which starts the service/runs a command to check if services are running on a particular port and capture the output.

Answer 1

See the System.Diagnostics.Process class:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.aspx

Once a Process instance is created and running, the .StandardOutput property will contain a StreamReader that can be used to read the output of the executing process.