Or use

killall -g $(head -1 /var/run/foo.pid)

after saving the pid as quentin describes.

note: killall varies considerably from platform to platform
check your man page


On 8/1/06, Quentin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/1/06, Quentin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I seem to remember some bash convention that would allow the behavior
> you are looking for, but I can't recall exactly what it is. I'm likely
> dreaming. My suggestion would be to track the PIDs of the processes
> you spawn, which I believe can be done by examining the !$ environment
> variable after launching each process, and then killing them
> explicitly. I've not had a need to do this myself though, so you'll
> have to look elsewhere for specific recommendations on how precisely
> this might be done.

oops, here's a better idea. Record the PID of the script using $$, and
the in your time killer, use that to call "ps --ppid $saved_pid" which
will return the PID's of all the children of your script. A little awk
slicing and you can kill them each directly.

--
-Regards-

-Quentin Hartman-
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