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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting A script that kills previous instances of itself upon running not killing child processes Post 302687543 by Chubler_XL on Thursday 16th of August 2012 07:09:07 PM
Old 08-16-2012
Try killing the process ID group with:

Code:
/bin/kill -$(/usr/bin/tail -1 ${pidFile})


Note: you are passing a negative number of the parent shell to kill. all child shells should be in the process group of the parent shell.

Also, some implementations of kill require -- to avoid -$PID being interpreted as a signal number eg:
Code:
/bin/kill -- $(/usr/bin/tail -1 ${pidFile})

 

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