Helllo:
I am trying to write a shell script to get the process
id of a
particular
process (slapd)
and then kill that using 'kill -9 $pid'.
I can get the pid by using prid= pidof slapd
An echo of this for testing gives me the pid number
followed by a blank
line
and then the prompt.
Now the problem is when I am trying to use this
variable in various
forms in
the shell script and get errors.
option 1:
kill -9 $prid
Output:
20685
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec]
[pid | job]... or
kill
-l [sigspec]
=========================
Option 2:
actual= "kill -9 $prid"
echo $actual
Output:
20685
./testscript: line 4: kill -9 : command not found
==========================
Option 3:
actual="kill -9 $prid"
echo $actual
Output:
20685
kill -9
#The process is still running.
Can you shed some light on where I am going wrong?
Thank you very much. All help appreciated.
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Try $pkill <process-name>
Abhilash
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