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.
Here is the problem. We want to grant a non super-user permission to kill root processes but only if the process matches certain criteria. ... (8 Replies)
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 :)
So the program has an infinite loop which keeps it going, as of right now I just simply if exit then... (5 Replies)
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.
I know the command to... (1 Reply)
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.
If I run kill -9 on the PID from the command line it kills it and all is well. If I have the... (1 Reply)
I have my Mac OS X program executing a shell script (a script that copies files to a drive). I want to make it so that the shell script automatically kills itself if it finds that the host .app is not running OR kill itself if the drive that it is copying files to has been unmounted. Right now what... (2 Replies)
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)
Hello
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.
I used to simply call exit, and that would accomplish what I... (1 Reply)
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)
Discussion started by: kamil-mech
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
sleep
sleep(1) User Commands sleep(1)NAME
sleep - suspend execution for an interval
SYNOPSIS
sleep time
DESCRIPTION
The sleep utility will suspend execution for at least the integral number of seconds specified by the time operand.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
time A non-negative decimal integer specifying the number of seconds for which to suspend execution.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Suspending command execution for a time
To execute a command after a certain amount of time:
example% (sleep 105; command)&
Example 2: Executing a command every so often
example% while true
do
command
sleep 37
done
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of sleep: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MES-
SAGES, and NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 The execution was successfully suspended for at least time seconds, or a SIGALRM signal was received (see NOTES).
>0 An error has occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO wait(1), alarm(2), sleep(3C), wait(3UCB), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)NOTES
If the sleep utility receives a SIGALRM signal, one of the following actions will be taken:
o Terminate normally with a zero exit status.
o Effectively ignore the signal.
The sleep utility will take the standard action for all other signals.
SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 sleep(1)