According to Jack Barnett R: While burning my CPU.
>
> >
> > Truly, I'm not trying to flood the list with stupid questions, it just comes
> > so naturally to me.
> >
> > 1. There must be a command out there that translates the name of a process
> > into it's PID, what is it?
> >
> > 2. How could I kill all processes that have a certain name? What about
> > killing all processes with a certain pattern in their name, how could I do
> > that?
> >
> > I'm thinking:
> >
> > # kill | (trans_processid *pat[]tern*)
> > ^-whatever that command is
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dan Browning
> > Network Administrator
> > Cyclone Computer Systems
> >
>
>
>
> ps will show you the PID ofthe proccess your running, ps -aux show all the
> processes running. man ps
>
> you could use the killall command, If i want to kill the pppd it would be
> killall pppd
>
> This will work for other programs as well
>
Nobody has commented on the command 'pidof', with a simple script you can
use it to kill off a process, i myself do not like killall in a script,
scripts can do funny things sometimes.
Here is what i would use.
#!/bin/sh
# Find a pid and kill it.
# Enter details in the system log.
if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
echo "Too few fields used, exiting..."
fi
LOGFILE=`grep /messages /etc/syslog.conf | awk '{print $2}'`
# The above is based on a normal distribution installed /etc/syslog.conf
TIME=`date`
case "$1" in
start)
$2
echo "$TIME $2 started" >>$LOGFILE
;;
stop)
PID=`pidof $2`
kill $PID
echo "$TIME $2 stopped" >>$LOGFILE
;;
*)
echo "Usage: pidkill start|stop program name"
echo "$TIME $2 invalid command used." >>$LOGFILE
exit 1
esac
exit 0
The above enters everything into the syslog, (messages) file.
Command syntax is;
./pidkill start pppd
It is universal so you can replace pppd with whatever program you want.
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