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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Process running? Stop it Post 302500809 by Corona688 on Tuesday 1st of March 2011 03:12:41 PM
Old 03-01-2011
Code:
read PID < /tmp/php.pid
echo "Killing $PID"
kill "$PID" || echo "Couldn't kill PID"

You should run this script under the same user that ran the PHP script (presumably apache), because the system won't allow you to kill a process belonging to someone else. You can't login as apache of course, but if you configure sudo to allow it, you can sudo -u apache /path/to/script.sh to run it under that effective user.

Also note that just because the process receives the kill signal doesn't mean it'll obey it. You should wait a short time, see if it's quit, and start sending it progressively more severe signals, like QUIT, and as a last resort, KILL.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

shells

shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
       which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

       The  following  default	shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh,
       /bin/tcsh,  /bin/zsh,  /sbin/jsh,  /sbin/sh,  /usr/bin/bash,  /usr/bin/csh,  /usr/bin/jsh,  /usr/bin/ksh,  /usr/bin/pfcsh,  /usr/bin/pfksh,
       /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list.

       Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)).

FILES

       /etc/shells	       lists shells on system

SEE ALSO

       vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)

SunOS 5.10							    4 Jun 2001								 shells(4)
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