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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 302687549 by DeCoTwc on Thursday 16th of August 2012 08:15:21 PM
Old 08-16-2012
Either I'm not understanding your suggestion, or I'm not doing it properly.


Code:
[root@liwmgmt02 ~]# ps -ef|grep [n]ew.log
root     13507  7458  0 19:57 pts/1    00:00:00 bash ./new.logGen.sh
root     13514 13507  0 19:57 pts/1    00:00:00 bash ./new.logGen.sh
[root@liwmgmt02 ~]# kill -- 13507
[root@liwmgmt02 ~]# ps -ef|grep [n]ew.log
root     13514     1  0 19:57 pts/1    00:00:00 bash ./new.logGen.sh
[root@liwmgmt02 ~]#

---------- Post updated at 08:15 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:59 PM ----------

Some one suggested to me using ps --ppid, and I came up with this:

Code:
ps --ppid $(cat /var/run/logGen.23223.pid)|while read -a i;do if [[ "${i[0]}" != PID ]];then kill "${i[0]}" > /dev/null;fi;done

though I'm not sure if this is what I'm going to go with. Just a thought for now.
 

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LEARN ABOUT POSIX

pts_quit

PTS_QUIT(1)						       AFS Command Reference						       PTS_QUIT(1)

NAME

       pts_quit - Exit from pts interactive mode

SYNOPSIS

       pts quit [-cell] <cell name> [-noauth] [-localauth]
	   [-force]

       pts q [-c] <cell name> [-n] [-l] [-f]

DESCRIPTION

       The pts quit command exits from pts interactive mode.  The command can be run from the command line or interactively, but on the command
       line it does nothing and is therefore of questionable utility.

CAUTIONS

       Prior to OpenAFS 1.4.5 and OpenAFS 1.5.23, the pts quit command was only available on Unix or Linux and when OpenAFS was compiled with the
       supergroups option (disabled by default).  As of OpenAFS 1.4.5 and 1.5.23, it is always available.

OPTIONS

       Although they have no effect, pts quit takes the following standard pts options:

       -cell <cell name>
	   Names the cell in which to run the command. For more details, see pts(1).

       -force
	   Enables the command to continue executing as far as possible when errors or other problems occur, rather than halting execution at the
	   first error.

       -help
	   Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

       -localauth
	   Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. Do not combine this flag with the -cell or
	   -noauth options. For more details, see pts(1).

       -noauth
	   Assigns the unprivileged identity anonymous to the issuer. For more details, see pts(1).

OUTPUT

       This command produces no output.

EXAMPLES

       Here is an example of a pts interactive session:

	  % pts interactive
	  pts> quit
	  %

SEE ALSO

       pts(1), pts_interactive(1)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2007 Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>

       This documentation is covered by the BSD License as written in the doc/LICENSE file. This man page was written by Jason Edgecombe for
       OpenAFS.

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