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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating a daemon to run in background Post 302496270 by jim mcnamara on Sunday 13th of February 2011 07:50:03 AM
Old 02-13-2011
Code:
while true
do
 ps auxww | egrep [m]ember.cgi | awk '{print $2}' | 
 while read PID; 
 do 
    ( sleep 2 && kill -0 $PID && kill -9 $PID )  &  # wait 2 secs, test for pid again, kill it
 done;
 wait               # wait for all of the  ( sleep 2 .... ) & above child processes to complete
 sleep 1           # give the cpu a break
done

This whole approach is not a great idea. Shell daemons have security issues, for one thing. I added a sleep 1 so this thing is not gobbling up cpu all day. The wait statement makes the process wait until all of the pids have been processed.

The while true loop is an infinite loop. Instead of that loop consider using cron, maybe an entry like this:
Code:
* * * * * /path/to/Kill_Daemon.sh

This runs the code every minute. You can lose the while true loop and the sleep 1 if you do this.
 

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