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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to choose the RIGHT PID? Post 302842133 by Igrok on Thursday 8th of August 2013 01:12:57 PM
Old 08-08-2013
How to choose the RIGHT PID?

I can find a single PID and copy it to a variable (thanks to the forum), but I have a slightly tougher situation:

When a user logs into our system, it creates 5 processes

example:
Code:
root     21160  3096  0 07:16 ?        00:00:00 sshd: cs113 [priv]
cs113    21164 21160  0 07:16 ?        00:00:00 sshd: cs113@pts/23
cs113    21165 21164  0 07:16 pts/23   00:00:00 -bash
cs113    21186 21165  0 07:16 pts/23   00:00:00 -bash
cs113    21195 21186  0 07:16 pts/23   00:00:01 rtssyn SYNDRV CS

Sometimes, the user gets logged in multiple times and the system won't let them back in. I want to write a script to identify the PIDs of the user and kill them, so they can log back into the system. To do this currently, I am manually grepping for the PIDS using:

Code:
ps -ef | grep cs113

and I get the result posted in the example. I then proceed to kill the process for cs113 that is owned by root to kill the user's login. example from above:

Code:
kill 21160

Depending on how many logins are in the system, I have to manually kill multiple PIDs.

Again, is there a way to automate the process?

Last edited by Scott; 08-08-2013 at 02:18 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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dappprof(1m)							   USER COMMANDS						      dappprof(1m)

NAME
dappprof - profile user and lib function usage. Uses DTrace. SYNOPSIS
dappprof [-acehoTU] [-u lib] { -p PID | command } DESCRIPTION
dappprof prints details on user and library call times for processes as a summary style aggragation. By default the user fuctions are traced, options can be used to trace library activity. Output can include function counts, elapsed times and on cpu times. The elapsed times are interesting, to help identify functions that take some time to complete (during which the process may have slept). CPU time helps us identify syscalls that are consuming CPU cycles to run. Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command. OPTIONS
-a print all data -c print function counts -e print elapsed times, ns -o print CPU times, ns -T print totals -p PID examine this PID -u lib trace this library instead -U trace all library and user functions EXAMPLES
run and examine the "df -h" command, # dappprof df -h print elapsed times, on-cpu times and counts for "df -h", # dappprof -ceo df -h print elapsed times for PID 1871, # dappprof -p 1871 print all data for PID 1871, # dappprof -ap 1871 FIELDS
CALL Function call name ELAPSED Total elapsed time, nanoseconds CPU Total on-cpu time, nanoseconds COUNT Number of occurrences DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with ver- bose descriptions explaining the output. EXIT
dappprof will sample until Ctrl-C is hit. AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia] SEE ALSO
dapptrace(1M), dtrace(1M), apptrace(1) version 1.10 May 14, 2005 dappprof(1m)
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