> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of MHR
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:21 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: pup problem
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > MHR wrote:
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >>
> >> # A shell script to kill that annoying runaway seamonkey that won't
> die
> >>
> >> case `basename $0` in
> >> "seakill") cmd=seamonkey;;
> >> "foxkill") cmd=firefox;;
> >> *) echo "Unrecognized command."; exit
> 1;;
> >> esac
> >>
> >> kill -9 `ps -ef | grep $cmd | grep -v grep | tail -1 | awk '{print
> $2}'`
> >> ps -ef | grep $cmd | grep -v grep
> >>
> >> If it works, nothing is displayed. If seamonkey/firefox is already
> >> gone, it give me kill's error for not finding the process (or for a
> >> missing process number because 'ps' couldn't find it, either).
> >>
> >
> > Isn't that command line a bit complex? Why not use ps options to get
> > what you want rather than using grep, tail, and awk to pull the PID
> out
> > of the standard output?
> >
> > ps -C $cmd -o pid= | xargs kill -9
> > ps -fC $cmd
> >
>
> It's an old script I rarely use. Yours looks better - I'm taking it.
> :-)
>
> Thanks
>
> mhr
How about "pkill"?
pkill $cmd # be nice
pkill -9 $cmd # be nasty
ps -fC $cmd # see what still didn't die
--
Owen Beckley - owenb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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