can I do
ps -ef | grep <process_name>
and kill the process is it exists?
and send a mail to me that the process was found and killed
Thanks much...
KS (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a written a script in korn shell for importing data into a oracle database. The shell invokes the import within the script. I want to kill this import (child process) . I tries using trap, but this does not kill the import even if i press cnt c. i have to login into other terminal... (2 Replies)
How do I kill a process, say by name "drec" from a perl script.
I tried with :
ps -eaf | grep drec | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9.
The output I got is :
ps -eaf | grep drec | awk '{print }' | xargs kill -9
/usr/bin/kill: ipgen: Arguments must be %job or process ids
{But, $2 is not... (3 Replies)
Hey all. I'm brand new to this forum and am looking for some help. I have a script that verifies that the backup tapes are working correctly. Basically is uses 1 command: restore -xpqvf > rootvglog
I use this for each volume group that we have. We run this everyday but the problem is, we... (4 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I have written a script to automate the docbase cleanup process on every weekly basis. That is in this script i have to shutdown the docbase and then kill all the process that are hanged except one process(epic process) and need to delete some log files and then i have to start the... (8 Replies)
i am using script to connect remotly to server and run some commands , one of these commands is to kill some process but tried different ways with no hope
sshpass -p 'pass' ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no server kill -9 `pgrep procs`
getting error message "kill: bad argument count"
... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
i hope you are fine.
I need a little help from you people--
inside a script i want to kill a parent process by checking it with the child process..
p_pid=`ps -e | awk '/ra_cmd_d/ {print$1}'`
here i am selecting the child process id in p_pid.
next--
sleep_pid=`ps -af |... (3 Replies)
Hi folks,
I would like to get familiar with shell script programing.
The first task is:
write a shell script that:
scans your home-folder + sub-directory for all txt-files that all users of your group are allowed to read and write
then output these files sorted by date of last... (4 Replies)
I was just playing with the processes and suddenly a question striked my mind:
What will happen if we kill directly the shell process?? :rolleyes:
Do anyone know?
Will the system shutdown?
Or the system wont let it be killed? (5 Replies)
Hello all,
I'm in need of a Script which needs to wait for all the child process to end and then kill the main process.
I have a process called mainpp which runs for different instances like evpn, nge, gmn etc so when i query for mainpp process it looks like below.
bash-3.2$ ps -eaf |... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mahesh_RPM
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
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] [-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.
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)