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Operating Systems AIX killing a process from a script Post 73243 by jalge2 on Monday 30th of May 2005 08:21:22 AM
Old 05-30-2005
killing a process from a script
Hey all. I'm brand new to this forum and am looking for some help. I have a script that verifies that the backup tapes are working correctly. Basically is uses 1 command: restore -xpqvf > rootvglog

I use this for each volume group that we have. We run this everyday but the problem is, we found processes out there that have been running for months slowing the system down. So I want to add a check to make sure that the process is killed before we start another.

I would like to use ps -eaf |grep restbyname. The only problem is, I don't know how to implement this into my script. It always returns 1 row (the grep) but I'm not sure how to create the if statement to get this to kill the correct process. Can anyone help?
 

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vgcfgbackup

VGCFGBACKUP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    VGCFGBACKUP(8)

NAME

       vgcfgbackup - backup volume group descriptor area

SYNOPSIS

       vgcfgbackup [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [VolumeGroupName...]

DESCRIPTION

       vgcfgbackup  allows you to backup the metadata or Volume Group Descriptor Area (VGDA) of one to all volume groups to files in /etc/lvmconf.
       If you don't give any volume groups in the command line, all of them will be backed up.	This DOESN'T backup user/system  data  in  logical
       volume(s)!   To	restore  volume  group	descriptor area backups see the vgcfgrestore(8) tool.  A 10 step history is backed up in /etc/lvm-
       conf/VolumeGroupName.conf and  /etc/lvmconf/VolumeGroupName.conf.[1-9].old. This enables you to restore your volume group configuration	up
       to 10 steps back in the backup history.

   OPTIONS
       -d, --debug
	      Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).

       -h, --help
	      Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

       -v, --verbose
	      Gives verbose runtime information about vgcfgbackup's activities.

DIAGNOSTICS

       vgcfgbackup returns an exit code of 0 for success and > 0 for error:

       1  error doing backup

       95 driver/module not in kernel
       96 invalid I/O protocol version
       97 error locking logical volume manager
       98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8))
       99 invalid command line

SEE ALSO

       lvm(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgcreate(8)

AUTHOR

       Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>

Heinz Mauelshagen						     LVM TOOLS							    VGCFGBACKUP(8)
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