im looking for a portable way to get the PID of the script that is running, and to get every other PIDs that are spawned from it.
and by ever other PIDs, i presume, that would be "child processes".
however, i want to shy away from using any command that is not available on every single unix system thats out there. so the preferred solution would be one that can be used everywhere.
so, here's what im attempting:
can the above be beefed up to spit out the entire line of every single PID that is spawned from my script or related to my script???
How to track the pid of a background child process(shell script) from a parent script ?
For example :-
$ sleep 10000 &
4220
where 4220 is the pid of bg process sleep.
Now my requirement is to keep the sleep statement in a shell script(test.ksh) and will be invoking it from... (3 Replies)
Is there a command in HP Unix which can be used inside a K shell to find out the maximum number of processes (PIDs) a pc can generate?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Steve (8 Replies)
I am trying to write a Shell script wherein the shell needs to read a list of PID in the File $stat/bin/Process and compare it to the PID of the processes running on a server.
Also the script should return KO(not OK) with corresponding label :-
a) When an environmental variable not... (2 Replies)
Hi,
There is a file having a list of running PIDs and another file having a list of registered PIDs. How can we check if the number of running PIDs are less or more than the registered PIDs, comparing the total no. in each and also each value.
Request you to pls give your inputs.
Thanks a... (2 Replies)
Hi,
There is a file having a list of running PIDs (pid_process) and another file having a list of registered PIDs (pid_regieter).
I want to check if:-
a) there is at least one running PID that does not correspond to a
registered PID (listing the PID not registered in the file)
... (1 Reply)
I have a script that conducts some SSH calls and I would like to capture the child info so that I can do a sleep and then a cleanup to make sure they do not stay out there as ghosts.
I was told I could do something like this...
#!/bin/sh
for m = job1, job2, job3
x=1... (4 Replies)
Hey,
So I'm new to shell scripting, and I'm trying to write one for my lab that will keep down the work load by deleting processes that are left over from previous sessions.
Basically I want it to do three things.
1) Check the processes running
2) See if that person is logged on.
3) if... (2 Replies)
I am trying to determine the root cause of a java process that dies trying to startup during it's cron job.
I did go ahead and change the time that it starts up in the cron file and now it starts successfully.
However is there a way to determine what PID a process was attempting to get when... (5 Replies)
Hi there !!!
I am writing a script to kill the pids on different linux boxes :cool:
the output of my command gives the pids running on that box, but how can I kill all the pids without looping? :confused:
Code:
ssh $i ps -fu $USER | grep ManServer | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | kill
... (4 Replies)