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Old 05-13-2009
Remotely kill a process
Hi guys,
is there a way to send a term signal or kill a process on a remote node from a shell script?


thanks

Jon
# 2  
Old 05-13-2009
Code:
ssh othernode "kill -TERM $PID"

# 3  
Old 05-13-2009
Thanks for that
# 4  
Old 05-13-2009
Pludi, do you have any idea how to end a process by name and not PID, since PID's change all the time.

thanks
# 5  
Old 05-13-2009
Option 1: using killall <name>, but this will probably also get other processes by that name
Option 2: get the PID from ps -ef and then use it with kill
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Old 05-13-2009
Option 1: using killall <name>, but this will probably also get other processes by that name
Option 2: get the PID from ps -ef and then use it with kill
# 7  
Old 05-13-2009
or try

pkill <name>

risky thing


better

ps -ef | grep name

like pludi wrote

check the output, and then kill the process
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