08-26-2009
Please post the script making it clear what Operating System and shell is in use.
In general your scripts need to trap a "kill -15" (hangup) and exit cleanly.
There is rarely any reason to issue a "kill -9".
It would help to know the Operating System so we can determine the best way to find the parent and child of the runaway process. This would determine the syntax of the "ps" comand with view to finding out the process tree and thence the process we need to kill.
Last edited by methyl; 08-26-2009 at 08:02 PM..
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NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs
SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script
DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library.
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