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Old 07-19-2006
Error kill scripts which are started using nohup
i have scipt which is calling some
other scripts and some built-in utilities like SED, find etc..

i started this script using nohup
(e.g: nohup scriptname &)

now i want to kill this script and all the child processes
of this script.

the problem is, process id of child processes are changing rapidly,
one dies, another created and so on.
thats why i cannot kill them

what can i do?

used killall, but i didnt work?

do you have any idea?
# 2  
Old 07-19-2006
Why killall does not work?
try
$ killall -KILL scriptname
# 3  
Old 07-19-2006
what happens if you just kill the parent script?
# 4  
Old 07-20-2006
When you invoke process with nohup and kill nohup, then init process (pid=1) becomes the parent of the scriptname
# 5  
Old 07-20-2006
it becomes the parent of the script, but not the parent script. Nohup simply prevents the processess from receiveing SIGHUP. It should still respond as expected to SIGTERM ot SIGKILL.
Last edited by reborg; 07-20-2006 at 07:27 AM..
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