Hi,
I have been trying to come up with a script to run as a cron job to kill any processes that have PPID of 1. I have created a file that contains the PID and the PPID. How can I read this file and then execute a kill on any PID where PPID is 1. The file looks like this:

4904 1
4455 1
6561 6560
5678 1

I create the file using:
ps -ef|grep -v root|grep rp_h1|awk '{print $2 , $3}' > killog

Then I want to read the killog file and issue a kill -9 on each PID that has a PPID of 1. This seems like it should be simple, but I am not very good with script writing. Thanks in advance for your help!!!

Lori