Service script not killing process.

[Stuart Stephen]

Title: talk2Utime

Hi all,

 

I have the following script to run a service under linux redhat 9.0 and it worked when I was editing it initially. However, i've left the box on for a few weeks now and I can't restart the services any more.

 

I tried killing the process manually using "kill procid" at the terminal interface and that didn't kill it either. The process is definately running.

 

What can I do to make sure that this process is killed?

 

One thing that maybe causing it could be the fact that the pidfile doesn't actually exist. I assumed Linux might have created this, but it doesn't - would that have any affect on this?

 

Thanks,

Stuart Stephen

 

#!/bin/bash
#
# start the service
#
# chkconfig: 345 25 75
# description: Chat server.
# processname: Chatserver
# pidfile: /var/run/talk2Utime-chatserver.pid

 

RETVAL=0

 

start() {
  /usr/local/bin/service-start-chatserver.sh
}

 

stop() {
  ps ax --width=1000 | \
    grep "[j]ava -server com.stevie.ChatServer.Start" | \
    awk '{ system("kill " $1) }'
}

 

restart() {
  stop
  sleep 3
  start
}

 

case "$1" in
  start)
    start
    ;;
  restart)
    restart
    ;;
  stop)
    stop
    ;;
  status)
    ps ax --width=1000 | \
      grep "[j]ava -server com.stevie.ChatServer.Start" | \
      awk '{printf "Chatserver running.\nProcess ID: " $1 "\n"}'
    ;;
  *)
    echo $"USAGE: [start|stop|restart|status]"

 

esac
exit $RETVAL