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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to kill top command using script? Post 302221371 by sysgate on Monday 4th of August 2008 10:15:44 AM
Old 08-04-2008
Why do you have to kill the top command in such manner, how are you using that command, can we see the relevant snippet of this script ? Else, you can always use "pkill -9 top" but be careful, this will kill any process with " * top * " pattern in the name, it's pretty harsh, so watch out.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSX

kill.d

kill.d(1m)							   USER COMMANDS							kill.d(1m)

NAME

       kill.d - snoop process signals as they occur. Uses DTrace.

SYNOPSIS

       kill.d

DESCRIPTION

       kill.d is a simple DTrace program to print details of process signals as they are sent, such as the PID source and destination, signal num-
       ber and result.

       This program can be used to determine which process is sending signals to which other process.

       Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command.

EXAMPLES

       Default output, print process signals as they are sent.
	      # kill.d

FIELDS

       FROM   source PID

       COMMAND
	      source command name

       TO     destination PID

       SIG    destination signal ("9" for a kill -9)

       RESULT result of signal (-1 is for failure)

DOCUMENTATION

       See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with ver-
       bose descriptions explaining the output.

EXIT

       kill.d will run forever until Ctrl-C is hit.

AUTHOR

       Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]

SEE ALSO

       dtrace(1M), truss(1)

version 0.90							   May 14, 2005 							kill.d(1m)
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