On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:38:12PM +0000, Voytek wrote:
> > OK, we know you can use other commands to kill processes by name, but
> > can anyone answer Voktek's question, or explain why the documentation
> > for kill seems to imply that the kill command can kill by name if it
> > can't?
bash has a built-in kill command which doesn't understand '-p', so try
using /bin/kill instead.
/bin/kill can *sometimes* kill by name (Redhat 7.3). I discovered a
couple of stale ssh processes hanging around so I decided to try it. I
didn't want to kill *all* ssh processes because I was still using some
of them, so I passed the '-p' switch to tell kill to print the pids
rather than send any signals.
Here's what ssh processes are actually running:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ps axf|grep ssh
15772 pts/8 S 0:03 | \_ ssh wombat.vastsystems.com.au
29541 pts/10 S 0:00 \_ ssh taipan.kirriwa.net
1440 ? S 0:03 ssh-agent
26989 ? S 0:00 ssh cvs.vastsystems.com.au -l johnc cvs server
26992 ? S 0:00 ssh cvs.vastsystems.com.au -l johnc cvs server
11362 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
If I try to kill ssh, it doesn't work:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /bin/kill -p ssh
kill: can't find process "ssh"
but if I try ssh-agent or xterm, it does work:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /bin/kill -p ssh-agent
1440
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp/photos]$ /bin/kill -p xterm
15525
15553
15625
15662
15693
15724
15770
11077
30608
19041
29539
31079
Cheers,
John
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