I have a cron job scheduled to run every 5 mins, and run a php script.
Something was not right about the script and when I checked the server had very little spare memory.
Looked in running processes and I could see that many instances of the script were still running.
I am new to this whole linux admin thing, and I am using webmin. I have a few questions.
For each instance of this script there are three lines:
15339 root 15:36 CROND
15340 root 15:36 php /var/www/html/beta/assets_30.php
15344 smmsp 15:36 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem -oi -t
First, is there a diference between 'kill' and 'terminate' ?
How can I kill/term all three at once, since they are obviosly related? I am currently killing only the php script, (ok after getting rid of all the php entries all the sendmail ones dissapeared. ).
Why is there a sendmail process associated with the cron job (this job has nothing to do with sending mail)
Is there a way I can set a time-to-live on each script so that linux can kill the processes automatically in case they stall.
