UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

hi all,

i have written a script that will check the CPU utilisation of my server (solaris).
if the CPU utilsation is less than 50% then it has start a job and if it touches 90% then the job has to be paused and after the CPU utilisation drops back to 50 it has to be resumed ...

in my server the kill -s option is not working and i do not know how else to resume and pause a process.

pls suggest what to do.

Are you root? What OS?

i am not the root...

o/p of uname -arv in my server yeilded this

SunOS hwnrst01 5.9 Generic_118558-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

If you are the owner of the process, I would think that

Code:

kill -STOP <pid>

would temporarily stop the process, and

Code:

kill -CONT <pid>

would make it continue.

If you are not the owner of the process, you really don't have too many options w/o being root.

HTH