This tries to kill the process nicely first, then get's serious!
EDIT: If your OS has it, you could always use the "killall" command instead. Beware on HP-UX 10.20 - the killall command will do just that - kill all processes! On Linux, however, killall sends signals to processes by name.
Is there any build in command in unix to kill all the child process for a given process ID ? If any one has script or command, please let me know.
Thanks
Sanjay (4 Replies)
Hi All,
In my project i have two process runs in the back end.
Once i start my project, and execute the command ps, i get below output:
PID TTY TIME CMD
9086 pts/1 0:00 ksh
9241 pts/1 0:02 java
9240 pts/1 0:00 shell_script_bg
java with 9241 PID is the main... (4 Replies)
Hellow Experts
i have one problem.
i run one script in backgroun.
and i want to kill that script with only script name.....
so what's the solution..
for your info
my script name is "testscript" n it contains "sleep 100"
thanks.... (16 Replies)
#!/bin/sh
who
echo "\r"
echo Enter the terminal ID of the user in use:
echo "\r"
read TERM_ID
echo "\r"
ps -t $TERM_ID | grep sh
echo "\r"
echo Enter the process number to end:
echo "\r"
read PID
echo "\r"
kill -9 $PID
What this code does is ultimately grab the PID of a users sh... (6 Replies)
I would want to run a code for 1 min and if it doesnt succeed in 1 min..I would want to exit it..I am using the following code...But the script is not going into my code part.It is waiting for 60 secs and then getting killed.
The code which is in the while loop actually takes less than 60 secs...... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I wrote a script to kill a process id.
I am able to kill the PID only if I enter the root password in the middle of the execution because I did not run as root i.e after i run the script from the terminal, instead of killing directly, it is killing only after entering the pass when it... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to write a script where i'm trying to grep the PID and the associated file and list them. Then execute the KILL command sequentially on the listed PID's for ".tra" files
====================================================
ps -aux | grep mine
adm 27739 0.2 0.8 1131588... (12 Replies)
Hi,
I simply want to kill a running process using a script that read pid from a file and tries to kill it .Getting error as shown below code..
cat $HOME/BackupScript.ksh.run | head -1 | while read pid
do
ps -p $pid > /dev/null 2>&1
if ; then
kill -9 $pid
else
echo "no running $pid... (5 Replies)
I created a program to kill long running pid processes.
I am getting the following error message:
-f command cannot be found.
I also want to count the number of pids that are killed and append the results to a text file. I am new to shell script programming.
1.The first part of code... (10 Replies)
Hi All, Looking for a quick LINUX shell script which can continuously monitors the flle size, report the process which is creating a file greater than certain limit and also kill that process. Can someone please help me on this? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: vasavimacherla
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
killall
KILLALL(1) User Commands KILLALL(1)NAME
killall - kill processes by name
SYNOPSIS
killall [-Z,--context pattern] [-e,--exact] [-g,--process-group] [-i,--interactive] [-o,--older-than TIME] [-q,--quiet] [-r,--regexp]
[-s,--signal signal] [-u,--user user] [-v,--verbose] [-w,--wait] [-y,--younger-than TIME] [-I,--ignore-case] [-V,--version] [--] name ...
killall -l
killall -V,--version
DESCRIPTION
killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands. If no signal name is specified, SIGTERM is sent.
Signals can be specified either by name (e.g. -HUP or -SIGHUP ) or by number (e.g. -1) or by option -s.
If the command name is not regular expression (option -r) and contains a slash (/), processes executing that particular file will be
selected for killing, independent of their name.
killall returns a zero return code if at least one process has been killed for each listed command, or no commands were listed and at least
one process matched the -u and -Z search criteria. killall returns non-zero otherwise.
A killall process never kills itself (but may kill other killall processes).
OPTIONS -e, --exact
Require an exact match for very long names. If a command name is longer than 15 characters, the full name may be unavailable (i.e.
it is swapped out). In this case, killall will kill everything that matches within the first 15 characters. With -e, such entries
are skipped. killall prints a message for each skipped entry if -v is specified in addition to -e,
-I, --ignore-case
Do case insensitive process name match.
-g, --process-group
Kill the process group to which the process belongs. The kill signal is only sent once per group, even if multiple processes belong-
ing to the same process group were found.
-i, --interactive
Interactively ask for confirmation before killing.
-l, --list
List all known signal names.
-o, --older-than
Match only processes that are older (started before) the time specified. The time is specified as a float then a unit. The units
are s,m,h,d,w,M,y for seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, Months and years respectively.
-q, --quiet
Do not complain if no processes were killed.
-r, --regexp
Interpret process name pattern as an extended regular expression.
-s, --signal
Send this signal instead of SIGTERM.
-u, --user
Kill only processes the specified user owns. Command names are optional.
-v, --verbose
Report if the signal was successfully sent.
-V, --version
Display version information.
-w, --wait
Wait for all killed processes to die. killall checks once per second if any of the killed processes still exist and only returns if
none are left. Note that killall may wait forever if the signal was ignored, had no effect, or if the process stays in zombie
state.
-y, --younger-than
Match only processes that are older (started after) the time specified. The time is specified as a float then a unit. The units are
s,m,h,d,w,M,y for seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, Months and years respectively.
-Z, --context
(SELinux Only) Specify security context: kill only processes having security context that match with given expended regular expres-
sion pattern. Must precede other arguments on the command line. Command names are optional.
FILES
/proc location of the proc file system
KNOWN BUGS
Killing by file only works for executables that are kept open during execution, i.e. impure executables can't be killed this way.
Be warned that typing killall name may not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user.
killall -w doesn't detect if a process disappears and is replaced by a new process with the same PID between scans.
If processes change their name, killall may not be able to match them correctly.
AUTHORS
Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net> wrote the original version of psmisc. Since version 20 Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au> can be
blamed.
SEE ALSO kill(1), fuser(1), pgrep(1), pidof(1), pkill(1), ps(1), kill(2).
Linux 2011-02-22 KILLALL(1)