begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:58:52PM -0700:
> On 10/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 07:42:56PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> >> Is anyone other than "seb" running "start.py"?
> >
> >I thought you might wonder that. The problem is when
> >root grep's for start.py. That very search itself enters
> >the ps table!
>
> All right, this is a problem with a classical known solution.
> I forgot about that. Same thing in the gawk RE.
> grep for [s]tart.py
Huh. I've always used "grep -v grep" for that.
> "[s]tart" matches "start" but does not match itself.
>
> $ kill -HUP $( ps -eo pid,cmd | gawk '/[s]tart.py/{print $1; exit}' )
>
> Also even without the [ ] trick to eliminate the extra match, the gawk
> one-liner exits after the first match. Under normal circumstances,
> the self-match result will come after the one you really want.
> "Normal circumstances" probably means that PIDs haven't wrapped.
That happens to me all the time. Especially on rohan, the big machine
at SDSU.
Of course, I use the grep -v grep trick, which means I consume more PIDs
than those folks who alter their search string. So it's more likely
that I'll wrap, eh? :)
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