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Hello,

Nice forum BTW... anyway on to my question.

I am trying to write a korn shell script that will shut down a java VM. The first challenge was how to figure out which java VM to kill, as there can be other java processes running at the same time.

Then I discovered fuser. It says it will determine the PID if you specify a filename that the process is accessing. Great, I'll just give it the application log path and it will kill the process if I supply the -k option. Unfortunately, this send a SIGKILL to the process. The java process is written to catch a kill signal (SIGTERM) so that it may shutdown gracefully. Is there a way to make fuser send a SIGTERM instead of SIGKILL? I notice that some solaris OSs have an fuser with a -n option to send a SIGTERM, but no such option exists in my version of fuser:

unix version HP-UX hrsut001 B.11.11 U 9000/800 141971547 unlimited-user license

If I can't use fuser, are there any other options on how to write a script that will find and SIGTERM the correct pid?

Thanks!

just get the PID of the process you need to send the signal to and use 'kill' to send a signal.

I need to automate this in a ksh script. How would one find the PID? I suppose I could use fuser and parse the output for the number. The user that will be shutting this process down is not unix savvy. They have to simply be able to type:

shutdown.sh

and hit enter.

just as said - write a script to call 'fuser' and parse the output to get the PID(s) of the processes using the file and pass the PID(s) to 'kill -SIGTERM'.

Actually it's easier than that. Apparently when you pipe the output of fuser, only the PIDs are piped. You can simply fuser the file and pipe it to 'xargs kill -SIGTERM'. You can check it out yourself by redirecting the output to a file and then cat'ing it:

[]ksh: /usr/sbin/fuser ../logs/application.log
../logs/application.log: 1297o 1309o

[]ksh: /usr/sbin/fuser ../logs/application.log > out.txt
../logs/application.log: oo
[]ksh: cat out.txt
1297 1309
[]ksh: