RE: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
'Course the original kill should've been call sig or something because that's all it really does - sends signals to processes, hence kill -9 123 is really kill -KILL 123 whereas kill -HUP 123 just sends the HUP signal to process 123. Actually signal 9 seems to be the only common signal number with the different Unixes. Better to use the signal name (eg HUP) than the number if you use different OSs during the day... Some of the GUI versions of process viewers can be fun, eg sun's sdtprocess where you can filter things out. I haven't seen a Linux version of something like this, although top isn't bad. - Jill ___ Jill Rowling Snr Design Engineer Unix System Administrator Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax:(02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:30:14AM +1000, Umar Goldeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just don't try it on Solaris. :) ( yes there is a killall, but it kills.. *ALL* ) $grin$ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
Jill Rowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually signal 9 seems to be the only common signal number with the
different Unixes.
You mean there is a Unix out there that doesn't have TERM on 15, or 2 on INT?
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Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:44:42PM +, Herbert Xu wrote: Jill Rowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually signal 9 seems to be the only common signal number with the different Unixes. You mean there is a Unix out there that doesn't have TERM on 15, or 2 on INT? I was about to post something similar to this last night, but thought I should look it up first. I knew that the FreeBSD.org web pages have links to on-line man pages for a whole host of versions of Unix, from V7 on. Lo: just about everyone has identical SIG numbers to V7, from 1 to 15. Just as you would expect. Things get a little weirder for the extended sigs above that. Solaris (SunOS5.7), for example, has 36 fixed-function signals and an indeterminate (varies at run-time) number of real-time signals. Then I looked at the RedHat 6.2 pages. Whew! Even some of the ones below 15 have weird meanings! All of the signals above 15 have two or three different encodings, depending on what platform you're using. That seems weird, but I guess that's a reflection of compatability with whatever the native version of Unix is on that platform. NetBSD is in the same position wrt multi-platform compatability, and their man pages simply don't include the signal numbers at all. They list the names, and refer to signal.h for the numbers. At least these ones seem to be universal: 1 HUP (hang up) 2 INT (interrupt) 3 QUIT (quit) 6 ABRT (abort) 9 KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill) 14 ALRM (alarm clock) 15 TERM (software termination signal) Well, excluding plan-9, which doesn't seem to have the concept of a numbered signal. -- Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Select and kill running process
Hello Sluggers
list process | grep desired-process | kill desired-process
Can someone tell me the format of the last part?
ps axf | grep process | kill -9 "process???"
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Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
Hi Terry! On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Terry Collins wrote: Hello Sluggers list process | grep desired-process | kill desired-process Can someone tell me the format of the last part? ps axf | grep process | kill -9 "process???" ps axf | grep netscape | sed s/^\ *// | cut -f1 -d" " | xargs kill -9 seems to work for me. kill takes the PID afaik, which is the first argument of ps axf. The pid is right justified so I strip the spaces off the front, and then use cut to get the first field (being the PID). This works, _BUT_ I'm sure there is another (probably better) way of doing it. Cheers, Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:50:25AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: list process | grep desired-process | kill desired-process Can someone tell me the format of the last part? ps axf | grep process | kill -9 "process???" If they are all 5 digit pids, you can use ps axf | grep process | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs kill For 4 digit pids, you need to use -f2 in the cut. Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Tredinnickemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CommSecure Pty Ltd PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
Hello Sluggers list process | grep desired-process | kill desired-process Can someone tell me the format of the last part? ps axf | grep process | kill -9 "process???" Others have presentented you with some clever shell/perl/awk/backtick ways of doing this. More convenient for me is a command called "killall" which does this stuff for you; it's part of a package called 'psmisc' on my system, psmisc also contains the useful fuser and pstree commands. $ killall netscape-communicator $ killall -9 netscape-communicator Hope this helps, Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
Slightly simplified version is:
ps -uaxw|grep process|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill -9
(adjust $2 with regards to the args on ps)
//umar.
seems to work for me.
kill takes the PID afaik, which is the first argument of ps axf.
The pid is right justified so I strip the spaces off the front, and then use
cut to get the first field (being the PID).
This works, _BUT_ I'm sure there is another (probably better) way of doing
it.
Cheers,
Benno
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Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
Just don't try it on Solaris. :) ( yes there is a killall, but it kills.. *ALL* ) $grin$ //umar. $ killall netscape-communicator $ killall -9 netscape-communicator -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
This command is so dangerous if you work with other OS's... like Unixware, AIX, Solaris etc killall does that!! Kills all. $ killall netscape-communicator $ killall -9 netscape-communicator Hope this helps, Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
This command is so dangerous if you work with other OS's... like Unixware, AIX, Solaris etc killall does that!! Kills all. ...including the process you wanted to kill in the first place :) This reminds me of answers to an editor quiz, assume vi without loss of generality. For each question, assume you begin at position 1 of line 1 Q1: How do you delete line 10 of the file? Answer: dG Q2: How do you delete line 15 through to line 20 of the file? Answer: dG ...and so it went on. From the linux killall manpage KNOWN BUGS section: Be warned that typing killall name may not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user. for large values of 'may not'! The choice of the name 'killall' for the Linux version was unfortunate. Maybe 'killbyname' would have been better (the original, natural kill could be aliased to 'killbynature'). I used to carry a shell script similar to the ps|awkish answers others have posted which I called 'namedkill' to kill processes by name not by process id. Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Select and kill running process
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:30:14AM +1000, Umar Goldeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Just don't try it on Solaris. :) ( yes there is a killall, but it kills.. *ALL* ) $grin$ Yep. I remember the first time I used it on a Solaris box .. You should have seen the SURPRISE ON MY FACE the box (a REAL BIG server!!!) was shutting down and I couldnt do a THING to warn ALL the users on(connected to) that machine . It does make sense to have "killall squid" or "killall xterm" or something like that to have ALL processes by THAT name killed. But it does make sense to have "killall" as well. What surprised me that there was NO warning aka "Do you really want to do this". Nope. Nothing. Zilch. Zero. Null. The box just went blank (and so did my face). It is funny now, but not at that time. $grin$! Jobst -- Rule number six: No pooftahs. |__, Jobst Schmalenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Director| | _ _.--'-n_/ Barrett Consulting Group P/L The Meditation Room P/L | |-(_)--(_)= +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia| -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
