Re: Assigning group or effective group to processes
Lars Noodin wrote: I have a bunch of processes that I wish to kill, but which have the same name and owner as process I wish to leave running. ps, pgrep and pkill can select based on a process' gid or egid. How can gid or egid be set when starting a process from shell? sudo(8)?
Re: Assigning group or effective group to processes
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:59:55PM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote: Lars Noodin wrote: I have a bunch of processes that I wish to kill, but which have the same name and owner as process I wish to leave running. ps, pgrep and pkill can select based on a process' gid or egid. How can gid or egid be set when starting a process from shell? sudo(8)? chroot might be easier: # chroot -g nobody,wsrc -u bin / /usr/bin/id uid=3(bin) gid=32767(nobody) groups=32767(nobody), 9(wsrc) -- Janusz Gumkowski http://www.am.torun.pl/~ja
Re: Assigning group or effective group to processes
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Lars Noodin larsnoo...@openoffice.org wrote: I have a bunch of processes that I wish to kill, but which have the same name and owner as process I wish to leave running. ps, pgrep and pkill can select based on a process' gid or egid. How can gid or egid be set when starting a process from shell? The command you're looking for is 'newgrp'...which OpenBSD doesn't currently have. sudo is probably the most direct workaround for now. Philip Guenther
Re: Assigning group or effective group to processes
Philip Guenther wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Lars Noodin larsnoo...@openoffice.org How can gid or egid be set when starting a process from shell? The command you're looking for is 'newgrp'...which OpenBSD doesn't currently have. sudo is probably the most direct workaround for now. Ok. Thanks, I was looking for newgrp (or something like it) but hoping that it merely had a different name. sudo it must be then. Regards, -Lars
Assigning group or effective group to processes
I have a bunch of processes that I wish to kill, but which have the same name and owner as process I wish to leave running. ps, pgrep and pkill can select based on a process' gid or egid. How can gid or egid be set when starting a process from shell? Regards, -Lars
