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# 1  
Old 01-24-2011
kill -9 not working
Hi All,

I tried killing a bunch of scripts. They seem to have worked because
ps -ef | grep -i SCRIPT_NAME is not showing them but the logs are getting populated and jobs in the script are getting done.

How do I really kill them or atleast see the process running?

Thanks
Sumeet
# 2  
Old 01-24-2011
Have you got "lsof" installed ? If so try running "lsof filename" and it will give you the pid of the process that has that file open (BTW, the title of the post is a bit misleading as the "kill -9" worked (and should always work unless there is a hardware fault), however there are still other processes that are writing to the files)

I hope this helps...
# 3  
Old 01-24-2011
kill -9 ran fine but the process still running
"lsof filename"

Which filename are we talking about? The script,log,cron,etc?

Yep the subject is misguiding.
# 4  
Old 01-24-2011
You mentioned the logs were getting populated ? Run "lsof" on those (unless they are syslog logs, in which case the syslog entry will usually give you the pid of the program that is logging the entry)
# 5  
Old 01-24-2011
Its not working. But your point is right if we are able to find which pid is writing into the file then we can kill it. This is what I got -


PHP Code:
aaau001:/datamart/log/script> lsof poll.PPM.output.012411.0002
aaau001:/datamart/log/script> 
Basically got back nothing.
# 6  
Old 01-25-2011
Is this the same script you were developing a while back and were running from cron? The log filename in the script looks similar.
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...ered-cron.html

If so, you may well need to comment out the cron to stop the poll.
# 7  
Old 01-25-2011
Hey Methyl,

Thats the first thing I did yesterday. I commented the cron jobs -


PHP Code:
crontab -l
#02 00 * * * /datamart/scripts/DM_PollScript.ksh PPM2DM* PROD waitfile > /datamart/log/script/PPM2DM.log

#01 00 * * * /datamart/scripts/DM_PollScript.ksh Peb* PROD waitfile > /datamart/log/script/Pebbles.log 
And surprisingly they got triggered again today. I am clueless where are they getting triggered from and How to stop it.

It is just ruining all other jobs.

Thanks

---------- Post updated at 01:07 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:06 PM ----------

And today I cant even see the poll script process running when I do -

ps -ef | grep -i poll
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