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Old 10-31-2010
Sleep process not sleeping!
I had a script executing every hour to kill a process. I used loop rather than cron to execute it periodically. But now when I am trying to kill that sleep process of 1 hour its not getting killed. it is taking a new PID everytime I kill. To disable the script commenting is the only option left, cant I do it by killing the sleep process?
Script is:
Code:
while true
do
kill -9 `ps -eaf | grep AREmail | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'` 
sleep 3600
done

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Old 10-31-2010
Since you put it in a while true loop, it will faithfully do the destructive kill (-9) and fire off a new sleep (with a new pid). So the sleep was getting killed, but you need to kill the parent for all new sleeps to stop.
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