As i understand it, this means
if pid is
a) unset, or
b) set to null
then replace with the value on the right of the minus sign--which is null
This confuses me because
a) I thought if a variable isn't set to anything it's automatically null. If not then what is an uninitiated variable set to?
b) if the variable is already set to null, then why replace it with another null?
I see this on line 74 in the file /lib/lsb/init-functions (I'm using hardy heron ubuntu)
Here's an excerpt from the file:
question: for the below program
i just printed the value for pid, child pid and parent pid
why does it give me 6 values? i assume ppid is 28086
but can't figure out why there are 5 values printed instead of just two!
can someone comment on that!
#include<stdio.h>
#define DIM 8
int... (3 Replies)
The below command returns full line.How can i get only PID from this line ie 15794 from the below example
(FI NY) nbswpsa52.ny.ficc.gs.com~ ->ps -ef | grep keepalive | grep -v keepaliveStub | grep -v swapback | grep -v grep
ficctprd 15794 1 0 13:12:58 ? 0:01 keepalive (3 Replies)
In a shell script, in need to execute a proccess in background, do some jobs then kill that process. ie,
someproc parameter1 &
somescript.sh
kill pid_of_the_proc_in_the_first_line
How can can get the PID of the process I'm invoking in the first line? (1 Reply)
1. If I use an software application(which connects to the database in the server) in my local pc, how many PID should be registered? Would there be PID for the session and another PID for socket connection?
2. I noticed (through netstat) that when I logged in using the my software application,... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
In my project i have two process runs in the back end.
Once i start my project, and execute the command ps, i get below output:
PID TTY TIME CMD
9086 pts/1 0:00 ksh
9241 pts/1 0:02 java
9240 pts/1 0:00 shell_script_bg
java with 9241 PID is the main... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need to get the pid of a process and have to store the pid in a variable and i want to use this value(pid) of the variable for some process. Please can anyone tell me how to get the pid of a process and store it in a variable. please help me on this.
Thanks in advance,
Amudha (7 Replies)
Hello people,
This question might seem to be a little naive but here it goes:
I want to know the PID of a script that is running in the background.
eg: There is a script called Data_Downloader.sh
I am using the command:
ps -ef | grep Data_Downloader.sh
But I am getting the output as
wrkarea... (9 Replies)
I have searched to find an anwer to no avail, I hope you can help me.
I have a.ksh that many people call and a.ksh calls b.ksh
b.ksh is also invoked stand-alone by many people as well
In b.ksh I want to do something different if it was not involked by a.ksh.
How can I do this? (7 Replies)
Hi All,
Just have a requirement, I am executing a bash shell script, my requirement is to catch the pid and job name to a txt file in the same directory, is there anyway to do it? please help me out.
Regards
Rahul
---------- Post updated at 08:42 AM ---------- Previous update was at... (2 Replies)
In bourne shell the PID generated for the command "ps" matches my login id PID in the command "who -Hu" but in bash/linux the PID generated with the same commands are different . Why so? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: asd78in
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kill
KILL(1) Linux Programmer's Manual KILL(1)NAME
kill - terminate a process
SYNOPSIS
kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] [ -- ] pid ...
kill -l [ signal ]
DESCRIPTION
The command kill sends the specified signal to the specified process or process group. If no signal is specified, the TERM signal is sent.
The TERM signal will kill processes which do not catch this signal. For other processes, it may be necessary to use the KILL (9) signal,
since this signal cannot be caught.
Most modern shells have a builtin kill function, with a usage rather similar to that of the command described here. The `-a' and `-p'
options, and the possibility to specify pids by command name is a local extension.
OPTIONS
pid... Specify the list of processes that kill should signal. Each pid can be one of five things:
n where n is larger than 0. The process with pid n will be signaled.
0 All processes in the current process group are signaled.
-1 All processes with pid larger than 1 will be signaled.
-n where n is larger than 1. All processes in process group n are signaled. When an argument of the form `-n' is given, and it
is meant to denote a process group, either the signal must be specified first, or the argument must be preceded by a `--'
option, otherwise it will be taken as the signal to send.
commandname
All processes invoked using that name will be signaled.
-s signal
Specify the signal to send. The signal may be given as a signal name or number.
-l Print a list of signal names. These are found in /usr/include/linux/signal.h
-a Do not restrict the commandname-to-pid conversion to processes with the same uid as the present process.
-p Specify that kill should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any signals.
SEE ALSO bash(1), tcsh(1), kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(7)AUTHOR
Taken from BSD 4.4. The ability to translate process names to process ids was added by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>.
Linux Utilities 14 October 1994 KILL(1)