How to stop the script which is running in background

Prateek007 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-22-2008

Hi

I have a script, which i ran in background, can someone please help in stopping this.

i gave this command:

ksh abc.ksh &

this script sends me a mail every 30 seconds. i have deleted the script but still i am getting the mails. can some one please help me stopping dese.

thanks in advance

replytoshishir · #2 (**permalink**) 11-23-2008

try this
history | sed 's/[0-9][0-9]*//'

thnx Shishir

summer_cherry · #3 (**permalink**) 11-23-2008

you may try below:

Code:

ps -ef | grep -i XXXX:  to find your background running process

kill OID : kill your unnecessary process

DukeNuke2 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-23-2008

just do a "fg" to bring your process back and stop it with ctrl+c.

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