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# 1  
Old 11-22-2008
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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
# 2  
Old 11-23-2008
try this
history | sed 's/[0-9][0-9]*//'


thnx Shishir
# 3  
Old 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

# 4  
Old 11-23-2008
just do a "fg" to bring your process back and stop it with ctrl+c.
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