UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi There


How do i kill multiple processors on unix version 5.05, I know how to kill a single processors individually (e.g kill -9 process number),but i need to do it daily as some users dont log off the systems and keeps processor's running, and when the night jobstream executes it falls over showing processors in use.

Your response will be highly appreciated.

Many Thks

Esh

kill -9 pid pid pid pid

have you tried using

kill -9 pid1 pid2 pid3 .....

Thanks for below , but however I want to place same in a script to execute automatically b4 the jobstream kicks in.Instead of me typing in (kill -9 1021 1022 1023 etc)

What does the process name associated with each pid look like ?

You can use something like this.

Code:

/bin/kill -p "processname"

. It will give you the pid of the corresponding processname.

one more thing it is always better to use kill -15 rather than kill -9, which is explained in this post

Hi Vino

Thanks , still not working