I have a process that I'd like to kill. Doing a "ps -fu myusername" gives me:
I'd like to be able to pkill or kill these two processes using a single command. The second process is the child process of the first. Using trial and error, I was able to kill just the parent process using:
I just don't know regular expressions to the point where I can single out this process by "parentProcess" because I think it's an argument and not the actual process name.
If anyone knows the correct command to kill the parent and child, I'd appreciate it. A little explanation of the command would be cool if you have the time. I think I'll be able to figure out any piping.
I'm system administrator and most of our Unix servers in the company host database that are accessed frequently by company employees. One day, one particular Unix server has been reported as being very slow. Upon further investigation using the ps command, we've found a rogue process that is... (8 Replies)
Dear Unix Gurus,
Here is my query.
If i start a script,it inturn calls many other scripts ..and most of them continue to run in parallel.
Suppose,if i want to stop my script for some reason,i need to kill -9 each of the processes running.It becomes clumsy if the sub processes r more.
... (15 Replies)
Hi All,
I am running one exe file say xyz and it is executing some 300 files. This xyz hanges when it reach at file no 232. So I checked this particular file by putting in the beginning and it didnt hang at that file but hanaged again at file no 232. So i figure out its not a problem with xyz... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am unable to kill a process using kill command. I am using HP-UX system. I have tried with kill -9 and i have root privilages.
How can i terminate this daemon ? ? ?
Regards,
Vijay Hegde (3 Replies)
Hi all
i have simple c program , when i wish to kill the app
im using kill(0,-9) , but it seams this command don't do any thing and the program.
just ignore it .
what im doing wrong here ?
im using HP-UX ia64
Thanks (9 Replies)
I want to Kill a process without using kill command as i don't have privileges to kill the process. I know the pid and i am using Linux 2.6.9 OS. (6 Replies)
have two scripts on Unix; one that starts some processes and the other one for killing a process. At first, I ran the .sh without WILY in it and it worked perfectly; in this way, I could also ran my stopper process. However I need WILY in this so I added it to my script but this time, a message... (1 Reply)
Good afternoon
I need to KILL a process in a single command sentence, for example:
kill -9 `ps -aef | grep 'CAL255.4ge' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
That sentence Kills the process ID corresponding to the program CAL255.4ge.
However it is possible that the same program... (6 Replies)
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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)