> Maybe one of you has some inspiration. 
> 
Environment: Compaq Tru64 5.1;  Oracle 8.1.7.3

> The concept is for a parent Korn shell to spawn a sqlplus child in
> background (which will validate table structure via a PL/SQL Block) then
> wait for a fixed time period before stopping/killing the sqlplus child.
> After the sqlplus child is stopped some follow-up processing is needed to
> "bookmark" where the sqlplus processing has stopped.
> 
> My quick test script so far look like:
> #!/bin/ksh
> echo "Starting val_asc, spawning at " $(date) >> val_asc.out
> sqlplus xxxxx/xxxx @val_asc3.pls >> val_asc3.log &
valpid=$!
> sleep 240
> kill -KILL  %1
> echo "Leaving val_asc at " $(date) >> val_asc.out
> exit
> 
When the sqlplus line runs it starts 2 processes:
> oragdv   169035 167185  0.0 10:00:20 pts/1        0:00.18 sqlplus
> oragdv   169652 169035  0.0 10:00:22 ??           0:00.13 oracleGDV
> (DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES). . .
> 
The problem is when the kill command executes, only the first of these 2
processes is killed immediately.  The 2nd (with the PPID at 1) continues
processing until the PL/SQL Block completes (including database updates)
before it terminates.

> Here's the question.  Is there a straightforward way to terminate that 2nd
> process before starting post processing?
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated as I have been bashing my head
> against the proverbial wall for several days now  ;)
I have used the $! parameter to id the sqlplus PID and have been fiddling
with ps & awk to try and obtain the 2nd process's PID but have yet to be
successful

> Michael Hand
Polaroid Corp

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