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Old 02-25-2010
kill command
Good way to kill the process, if the process having it's child
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Old 02-25-2010
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Enter the parent process ID"
read ppid
for i in `ps -ef| awk '$3 == '${ppid}' { print $2 }'`
do
echo killing $i
kill -9 $i
done

This script will help you to kill the child process
Last edited by pludi; 02-25-2010 at 04:58 AM.. Reason: code tags!!!
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Old 02-25-2010
You can simply kill the process. Try it,

kill -9 -<process_id>
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Old 02-25-2010
kill -9 -<process id> # remember the - before the process id

remember you cannot give more than one process id in this command
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