1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a process that is in the sleeping state "S" and I have tried to stop it with a run control script that I use to stop/start it - but it does not stop. I have tried kill -9 <PID of process> with no change. I imagine that this process is sleeping with the kernel. It does not respond to... (5 Replies)

2. Programming

Hi, I have a requirement. Scenario: A parent job invokes a child job and gets killed. The child becomes orphan and gets attached to init. Child job is removed from the pid table as soon as it gets completed. Requirement is i need the status of the child job even after the parent job is... (7 Replies)

3. Solaris

hi, i am creating a daemon process for updating the file at regular interval.one problem with this is if anybody kills the daemon it wont update the file.anybody have idea how to rerun the daemon if it killed.the code is written in c++ in solaries environment. thnaks & regards suresh (8 Replies)

4. Solaris

Hi all, Currently I am using LDAP to store some network related data, When I run following script ./ns-slapd ldif2db Execution of above script terminates displaying "Killed" on the console. As far as I know, a process can be killed by two ways- 1. manually running " kill -9 <PID of LDAP... (1 Reply)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script that calls another script within it that takes about 1 hour to execute. I am noticing that the parent script that calls the child script is getting killed. Does anyone know why? The child script still runs. (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey all, I need to launch a script from within 2 other scripts that can run independently of the two parent scripts... Im having a hard time doing this, if anyone knows how please let me know. More detail. ScriptA (bash), ScriptB (ksh), ScriptC (bash) ScriptA, launches ScriptB ScirptB,... (7 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

HI all, I am very new to AIX (matter of fact Unix). We are currently automating out manual process using Unix Shell Scripting. My wrote a shell script which will accept the name of the sas job as parameter, checks the existense of the sas file in the specified folder. If it is not present,... (1 Reply)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have a process which takes 13-15 mins for execution and its getting killed in the meantime.So can you please helpme out how to protect the process from getting killed. Thanks in advance. Regards, Harika (9 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone i am very new to linux , working on bash shell. I am trying to solve the given problem 1. Create a process and then create children using fork 2. Check the Status of the application for successful running. 3. Kill all the process(threads) except parent and first child... (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,all.Well,I know someone has already asked this question before,however,It's too long before.So i post a new thread here. Here is the issue.I have a shell script that use awk to calculate something and the script takes about 15 mins,it will use 100% CPU,and the system automatically killed the... (2 Replies)