Hi JCR,
fuser -k should do the trick. The manpage tells you that the privileges of your user are used when trying to kill the process.
For fuser the setuid-bit is set (at least on AIX) :
This means that the process running the fuser command operates with root-privileges (= it's effective user ID is root), which would allow you to kill any process with this command. To prevent this the process switches back to the user you logged on and operates with those privileges before attempting to kill another process.
OS: Unix or Linux
I (only) know the pid of the process which was running earlier (say 5 hrs back) but it is not running now.
Is there a way I could find the details of that process? (atleast the name of the process). Please let me know. (2 Replies)
Hi.
I was testing some staff and wrote simple script, which only writes date to log every 15 seconds.
Like that
#1.sh
while true;do
echo `date` >> 1.log
sleep 15
done
And than i ran this process with `at -s -f 1.sh now`. And now it is running and i don't know how to catch it.
I tryed... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm a newbie when it comes to using UNIX, and I'm hoping someone here can help me out. I have a set of processes that I want to run sequentially:
process1.py
process2.py
process3.py
I want to know I can run these sequentially using their process IDs (PIDs). Ideally, I want to... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am having a little bit of trouble trying to find something out. I am trying to script a start/stop php file, for some gaming servers i host. The server have 2 lots of processes running on them, and the customers need to be able to start and stop them at their will.
So i know how to... (1 Reply)
Hi Friends,
How can we find the process ID of a running process using the process name. In AIX I used to use the command "ps -ef | grep <process name>", it used to give me the owner of that process, Process ID and the threads running and the name of the process in the end.
However in... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone. I've been reading around and am a little bit overwhelmed, hoping to find a kind soul out there to hold my hand through writing my first script. This need has emerged at work and I haven't much experience writing shell scripts, but this is a problem we have with a production environment... (13 Replies)
hi guys
i had written a shell script Display Information of all the File Systems
i want to find the pid and kill the process after few minutes.how can i obtain the pid and kill it???
sample.sh
df -a >> /tmp/size.log
and my cron to execute every minute every hour every day
* *... (5 Replies)
Dear All,
I need to transfer all files present in one location to another but those files should be of specific extension like.
Find and copy all files of extension .xls, .pdf, .txt from location usr/tmp to location /per/Treat (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: yadavricky
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pidof
PIDOF(8) Linux System Administrator's Manual PIDOF(8)NAME
pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.
SYNOPSIS
pidof [-s] [-c] [-n] [-x] [-m] [-o omitpid[,omitpid..]] [-o omitpid[,omitpid..]..] program [program..]
DESCRIPTION
Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs. It prints those id's on the standard output. This program is on some systems
used in run-level change scripts, especially when the system has a System-V like rc structure. In that case these scripts are located in
/etc/rc?.d, where ? is the runlevel. If the system has a start-stop-daemon (8) program that should be used instead.
OPTIONS -s Single shot - this instructs the program to only return one pid.
-c Only return process ids that are running with the same root directory. This option is ignored for non-root users, as they will be
unable to check the current root directory of processes they do not own.
-n Avoid stat(2) system function call on all binaries which are located on network based file systems like NFS. Instead of using this
option the the variable PIDOF_NETFS may be set and exported.
-x Scripts too - this causes the program to also return process id's of shells running the named scripts.
-o omitpid
Tells pidof to omit processes with that process id. The special pid %PPID can be used to name the parent process of the pidof pro-
gram, in other words the calling shell or shell script.
-m When used with -o, will also omit any processes that have the same argv[0] and argv[1] as any explicitly omitted process ids. This
can be used to avoid multiple shell scripts concurrently calling pidof returning each other's pids.
EXIT STATUS
0 At least one program was found with the requested name.
1 No program was found with the requested name.
NOTES
pidof is actually the same program as killall5; the program behaves according to the name under which it is called.
When pidof is invoked with a full pathname to the program it should find the pid of, it is reasonably safe. Otherwise it is possible that
it returns pids of running programs that happen to have the same name as the program you're after but are actually other programs. Note
that that the executable name of running processes is calculated with readlink(2), so symbolic links to executables will also match.
SEE ALSO shutdown(8), init(8), halt(8), reboot(8), killall5(8)AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
01 Sep 1998 PIDOF(8)