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01-12-2003

sanjay92

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Re: kill parent and child

Quote:

Originally posted by larry
Hello all,

I have gone through the search and looked at posting about idle users and killing processes. Here is my question I would like to kill an idle user ( which I can do) but how can I asure that all of his process is also killed whit out tracing his inital start PID. I have tried this on a solaris 8 system but, I seem to make the child process a zombie or hang because of what he was doing. Is there a clean way to do this?
Thanks

I have used the following shell script to kill all child PID's for a given PID.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
# This script will kill all the child process id for a  given pid
#Store the current Process ID
CURPID=$$

# This is process id, parameter passed by user
ppid=$1

if [ -z $ppid ] ; then
   echo No PID given.
   exit;
fi

arraycounter=1
while true
do
        FORLOOP=FALSE
        # Get all the child process id
        for i in `ps -ef| awk '$3 == '$ppid' { print $2 }'`
        do
                if [ $i -ne $CURPID ] ; then
                        procid[$arraycounter]=$i
                        arraycounter=`expr $arraycounter + 1`
                        ppid=$i
                        FORLOOP=TRUE
                fi
        done
        if [ "$FORLOOP" = "FALSE" ] ; then
           arraycounter=`expr $arraycounter - 1`
           ## We want to kill child process id first and then parent id's
           while [ $arraycounter -ne 0 ]
           do
             kill -9 "${procid[$arraycounter]}" >/dev/null
             arraycounter=`expr $arraycounter - 1`
           done
         exit
        fi
done
## Kill Parent ID
kill -9 $CURPID

added code tags for readability --oombera

Last edited by oombera; 02-18-2004 at 08:52 PM..

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bonobo-slay

bonobo-slay(1)							   User Commands						    bonobo-slay(1)

NAME

       bonobo-slay - kill running bonobo processes

SYNOPSIS

       bonobo-slay [--help] [-i] [-l | -s] [regexp]

DESCRIPTION

       bonobo-slay cleans up bonobo processes that might have encountered lifecycle management issues.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -h, --help      Displays usage and help information.

       -i	       Ask before killing the processes.

       -l	       List running processes, but do not kill them. Not valid with the -s option.

       -s	       Kill processes silently.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       regexp	       Only kill bonobo processes that match the specified regular expression.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Killing All Nautilus bonobo Processes Silently

       example% bonobo-slay -s nautilus

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/bonobo-slay    Executable to kill running bonobo processes

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-component	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       environ(5), attributes(5)

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    6 Sep 2004							    bonobo-slay(1)

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