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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How to kill printer PIDs except the spooler PID? Post 303025020 by djflu on Tuesday 23rd of October 2018 04:39:28 AM
Old 10-23-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
You might want to go for the (man ps)
Code:
etimes      ELAPSED   elapsed time since the process was started, in seconds.

format specifier (in seconds for ease of evaluation).

Thanks a lot for the info, but I don't know how to isolate PIDs older than 72h:
Code:
ps -aef |grep -i lpsched | grep -v grep | sort -rk6 
       lp 18188 11814  0 08:11:54 ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp 12650 11814  0 08:56:28 ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp  9131 11814  0 12:19:57 ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp  1078 11814  0 09:08:07 ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp 29793 11814  0  Sep 30  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp 11814     1 23  Aug 28  ?        245:18 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp 19332 11814  0  Oct 19  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp 18598 11814  0  Oct 17  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp 26198 11814  0  Oct 16  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp  5802 11814  0  Oct 12  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp 24510 11814  0  Oct 10  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp  4585 11814  0  Oct  8  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp 26585 11814  0  Oct  7  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched
      lp 25739 11814  0  Oct  2  ?         0:00 /usr/sbin/lpsched

 ps -eaf | grep -e lpsched | grep -v grep | awk '{if (/lpsched$/ && $3 > 1) printf "%s ", $2}'
24510 19332 12650 4585 29793 26585 26198 25739 9131 18598 5802 18188

 

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