Is the command killall available on your system?
The following command should do what your script intends to do:
Like vbe, it is not clear to me what you try to accomplish...
Hi,
Please let us know of any possiblity of identifying and killing unix proces invoked externally (by an external tool which does not create a session). 'who' command gives idle time of sessions. But what we are looking for is idle time of a process. 'ps' command gives the elapsed/running... (1 Reply)
Hello guys,
I have a process named monitoreo, with 'monitoreo start' my process start until i kill them, now i want to do 'monitoreo stop' to kill them.
After 'monitoreo start' i have this process running:
ps -af
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
ati 10958 1495 ... (5 Replies)
hello Bros,
I need to write some script that i can put it on crontab which checks for a process X if running. If the process X is ruuning then take the PID and kill it or display message that says process X is not running.
I am using AIX 5.3
Thanks guys.:b: (2 Replies)
Hi Unix Gurus i am somewhat new to unix scripting so need your help to
create a script as below.
# This script would find the process consuming memory beyond a certain #limit. if the meemory consumption is more than 100% for a period of 1
# minute for the specific process. the script would... (0 Replies)
hi friends,
I am trying to automate the daily monitoring process of UNIX server and it's processes. the script are below
i executed the above script using ksh -x monitortest1.sh in root login . It shows error at some lines .
1. i logged in using root ,but it... (8 Replies)
Hi all,
I need a script that will loop around all the current processes and take a pmap -x <process id> and output each pmap to a separate file.
Would anyone have a quick command to do this? (2 Replies)
Hi Experts, we do have a shell script for Unix Solaris, which will kill all the process manullay, it used to work in my previous env, but now it is throwing this error.. could some one please help me to resolve it
This is how we execute the script (and this is the requirement) ... (2 Replies)
Hello all... new to these forums and a bit of a newbie with linux aswell.
I need to figure out how to write a shell script to kill a process by name as given to the script as an argument. I've got that part working OK, but i need to make sure that the script does not allow processes that are... (6 Replies)
What I need to learn is how to use a script that launches background processes, and then kills those processes as needed.
The script successfully launches the script. But how do I check to see if the job exists before I kill it?
I know my problem is mostly failure to understand parameter... (4 Replies)
I want to kill a process of xterm that is run by hacker with my login name.
So, I write a shell script to do my goal.
I run 2 xterm and then I run my script on a first xterm. it should kill the process of a second xterm but it doesn't.Why?
Here is my code :
#!/bin/ksh
myps=$(ps -f|grep... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: thsecmaniac
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killall
KILLALL(1) User Commands KILLALL(1)NAME
killall - kill processes by name
SYNOPSIS
killall [-Z,--context pattern] [-e,--exact] [-g,--process-group] [-i,--interactive] [-q,--quiet] [-r,--regexp] [-s,--signal signal]
[-u,--user user] [-v,--verbose] [-w,--wait] [-I,--ignore-case] [-V,--version] [--] name ...
killall -l
killall -V,--version
DESCRIPTION
killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands. If no signal name is specified, SIGTERM is sent.
Signals can be specified either by name (e.g. -HUP or -SIGHUP ) or by number (e.g. -1) or by option -s.
If the command name is not regular expression (option -r) and contains a slash (/), processes executing that particular file will be
selected for killing, independent of their name.
killall returns a zero return code if at least one process has been killed for each listed command, or no commands were listed and at least
one process matched the -u and -Z search criteria. killall returns non-zero otherwise.
A killall process never kills itself (but may kill other killall processes).
OPTIONS -e, --exact
Require an exact match for very long names. If a command name is longer than 15 characters, the full name may be unavailable (i.e.
it is swapped out). In this case, killall will kill everything that matches within the first 15 characters. With -e, such entries
are skipped. killall prints a message for each skipped entry if -v is specified in addition to -e,
-I, --ignore-case
Do case insensitive process name match.
-g, --process-group
Kill the process group to which the process belongs. The kill signal is only sent once per group, even if multiple processes belong-
ing to the same process group were found.
-i, --interactive
Interactively ask for confirmation before killing.
-l, --list
List all known signal names.
-q, --quiet
Do not complain if no processes were killed.
-r, --regexp
Interpret process name pattern as an extended regular expression.
-s, --signal
Send this signal instead of SIGTERM.
-u, --user
Kill only processes the specified user owns. Command names are optional.
-v, --verbose
Report if the signal was successfully sent.
-V, --version
Display version information.
-w, --wait
Wait for all killed processes to die. killall checks once per second if any of the killed processes still exist and only returns if
none are left. Note that killall may wait forever if the signal was ignored, had no effect, or if the process stays in zombie
state.
-Z, --context
(SELinux Only) Specify security context: kill only processes having security context that match with given expended regular expres-
sion pattern. Must precede other arguments on the command line. Command names are optional.
FILES
/proc location of the proc file system
KNOWN BUGS
Killing by file only works for executables that are kept open during execution, i.e. impure executables can't be killed this way.
Be warned that typing killall name may not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user.
killall -w doesn't detect if a process disappears and is replaced by a new process with the same PID between scans.
If processes change their name, killall may not be able to match them correctly.
AUTHORS
Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net> wrote the original version of psmisc. Since version 20 Craig Small <csmall@small.drop-
bear.id.au> can be blamed.
SEE ALSO kill(1), fuser(1), pgrep(1), pidof(1), pkill(1), ps(1), kill(2).
Linux 2007-08-09 KILLALL(1)