$! is the process ID of the last command run in the background not the last command run. So if you do:
Then it should work. Either that or change your script to:
The effect of the exec command is to cause the command after it to be run in place of the current shell, but no new process is created. Thus it will have the same process ID as the shell it is run from.
I am newbie to unix shells world.
I am trying to capture a background process id into a file so that it can be killed later.
this process is basically a java program running in background as:
java TestApp &
this returning process id immediately. So how can i redirect that pid into a file.... (1 Reply)
Hello all,
I would be happy if any one could help me with a shell script that would determine all the processes running on a Unix server and post a mail if any of the process is not running or aborted.
Thanks in advance
Regards,
pradeep kulkarni.
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Guys
we all know what command 'COLUMNS=2047 /usr/bin/ps –eo pid,ppid,uid,user,args' does.It prints 5-column output for the running processes on a AIX box.
Here is simple thing i need:
I need to insert this tabular data in a db2 table.
How do i need?
I have created table with these five... (0 Replies)
Hi Experts, we do have a shell script for Unix Solaris, which will kill all the process manullay, it used to work in my previous env, but now it is throwing this error.. could some one please help me to resolve it
This is how we execute the script (and this is the requirement) ... (2 Replies)
i'm looking to have my script capture it's own process name while running.
i'm going to use this in the output of the script to track which script produced which output file(s).
when i run:
ps -ef | grep processname
i only get as results a ps -ef listing for the grep inside my... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I just wonder I need to write a script where I can check if a particular process is consuming X amount of CPU. I was thinking of using the ps command but doesn't seems to work. Any ideas. Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm gonna launch a process from my 'C' code. I'm gonna launch it a few times. I would like to capture the PID of that process each time I launch. I have to copy the each PIDs into a 'C' variable and I have to kill all of them when I exit from the 'C' code.
My requirement is
int... (3 Replies)
I have two set of questions.
1) To skip killing some process automatically.
2) To kill other process and capture their log.
I have set of process, some needs to be killed gracefully and others should be skipped.
Listed are the process.
adm 1522... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I was out not working on unix from quite sometime and came back recently. I would really appreciate a help on one of the issue I am facing....
I am trying to kick off the CodeNameProcess.sh in PARALLEL for all the available codes. The script runs fine in parallel.
Let say there are... (1 Reply)
I am writing a script to kick off a process to gather logs on multiple nodes in parallel using "&". These processes create individual log files. Which I would like to filter and convert in CSV format after they are complete. I am facing following issues:
1. Monitor all Processes parallelly.... (5 Replies)
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getpid(2) System Calls Manual getpid(2)NAME
getpid(), getpgid(), getpgrp(), getpgrp2(), getppid() - get process, process group and parent process ID.
SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION
These functions return process, process group and parent process IDs, as follows:
Process group ID of the specified process.
If pid is zero, the call applies to the calling process. Same result as
Process group ID of the calling process.
Process group ID of the specified process.
If pid is zero, the call applies to the calling process. Same result as
Process ID of the calling process.
Parent process ID of the calling process.
If the parent process is the initialization process (known as the call returns 1.
Security Restrictions
The system call is subject to compartmental restrictions. See compartments(5) for more information about compartmentalization on systems
that support that feature.
Compartmental restrictions can be overridden if the process possesses the privilege (PRIV_COMMALLOWED). Processes owned by the superuser
may not have this privilege. Processes owned by any user may have this privilege, depending on system configuration. See privileges(5)
for more information about privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges.
RETURN VALUE
The functions return the following values:
Successful completion.
n is a nonnegative process ID, as described above.
Failure:
and only. is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If or fails, is set to one of the following values:
[EPERM] The current process and pid are not in the same session (see setsid(2)).
[ESRCH] No process can be found corresponding to that specified by pid.
AUTHOR
and were developed by HP, AT&T, and the University of California, Berkeley.
SEE ALSO exec(2), fork(2), setpgid(2), setsid(2), signal(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE getpid(2)