You have a child process. If you check the pid of your current process
BEFORE the command, then check
AFTER the
command to get the pid of the child process then you can see what is happening.
Do you know about job commands in bash and how kill works on them?
fg and bg and jobs are your friends here. Plus, mousepad may run setuid as an independent daemon - I know nothing about it. Which means it may run as root and you cannot kill it.
Lose mousepad, and try something simple like
for testing.
Hello,
First let me start by saying I have searched the forum and read all the SUID stuff but it is not in the neighborhood I am looking for.
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Dear All:
I use sun OS system and write a code in c as folloing
purpose kill textedit program,but i get some error
please give me a great help Thanks.
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
const char cTestPrag=" kill -9 `ps -ef | grep textedit | grep -v "grep"| awk '{print $2}'| xargs` ";
... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I know that the answer to this is very simple, since I saw somebody do it some time back..but I forgot how.
The problem is, I have multiple instances of the same program running simultaneously and I want to kill them all in a single command.
I know that it can be done using awk '{print... (12 Replies)
Hi all, I have a program and I'm trying to kill it. I'm probably going the longest way around of doing it but now that I've tried to get this to work for a few hours I'd appreciate some help :)
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Dear All,
I have a script which after executing is not stoping when i press ctrl+c.
Now i want to Append the script in such a way when i press ctrl+c while execution of the program it should take it as arguements and should kill the script/running program forcefully.
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I have a start|stop|restart script for a custom app we have. After it tries to stop our process the correct way, it checks to see if it's gone, if not it tries to kill it, if that doesn't work kill -9.
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Hello
i'm trying to make a program which can find a running program on the system and kill it, then repeat that every 5 minutes. The name of the process is given with an argument. I have done this so far, but still not working.
if $1 in $(ps -e) ; then
kill $(pidof $1)
sleep 5m
fi (3 Replies)
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Okay, for reasons related to sourcing a script from another script, I've had to put my main loop into a function, and from there I call other functions. My problem then is exiting from deep within the function call stack.
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Hello elite shell/bash specialists,
I have done plenty of STFW and some RTFM, but I cannot find a clear solution to my challenge
Goal:
My goal is to have a script(of any language, preferably shell/bash/anything that can run things on unix), which will kill specific unix terminal windows for... (0 Replies)