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07-15-2009

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Trouble getting consistent PID of tomcat server from ps

Hello all,

I am working on a script to automate the process of restarting some tomcat servers. The versions of tomcat are pretty old and it often happens that they don't shut down gracefully and the PID needs to be manually killed. I am having a bear of a time getting a consistent PID from ps though, since sometimes other java processes show up and I get more than one PID from

Code:

`ps -ef | grep [X]ms | cut -c10-14`

(Xms is one of the values from the PID that I thought was unique to the server process, but apparently not since it double matches periodically.)

I have tried all kinds of way to trick it out, but when I run a test like

Code:

while [ `ps -ef | grep [X]ms | cut -c10-14` -eq $TOMCAT_PID ]; do
    echo IT IS ALIVE!
    sleep 1
done
echo -ne "PID results changed, dude!\n"

I always wind up getting kicked out of the loop b/c ps returned more than one value.

Any suggestions of things I can try to get the right value 100% of the time?

Thanks,

Dave

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setsid

SETSID(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 SETSID(2)

NAME

       setsid - creates a session and sets the process group ID

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       pid_t setsid(void);

DESCRIPTION

       setsid() creates a new session if the calling process is not a process group leader.  The calling process is the leader of the new session,
       the process group leader of the new process group, and has no controlling tty.  The process group ID and session ID of the calling  process
       are set to the PID of the calling process.  The calling process will be the only process in this new process group and in this new session.

RETURN VALUE

       The session ID of the calling process.

ERRORS

       On  error,  -1  will be returned.  The only error which can happen is EPERM. It is returned when the process group ID of any process equals
       the PID of the calling process. Thus, in particular, setsid fails if the calling process is already a process group leader.

NOTES

       A process group leader is a process with process group ID equal to its PID. In order to be sure that setsid will succeed,  fork	and  exit,
       and have the child do setsid().

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX, SVr4.

SEE ALSO

       setpgid(2), setpgrp(2)

Linux 1.0.0							    1994-08-27								 SETSID(2)

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