Hi, On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:56, Matthias Meyer<matthias.me...@gmx.li> wrote: > As an alternative you can place the following script in /etc/crontab. > #!/bin/bash > declare -a hosts > hosts[0]=server1 # fill in your own host names > hosts[1]=server2 # whose backup should be canceld > hosts[2]=server3 > declare -i hostcount=3 # configure your count of killable hosts > > ps ax | grep "BackupPC_dump -i" | grep -v grep > /tmp/runnings > while read pid fl1 fl2 duration perl dump fl3 host rest > do > for (( a=0; a<hostcount; a++ )) > do > if [ $host == ${hosts[a]} ]; then kill -9 $pid > /dev/null > 2>&1; fi > done > done < /tmp/runnings > exit 0
Not only "kill -9" should not be used in normal circumstances (as already pointed out by Chris), as the script could be simplified: hosts="server1 server2 server3" # list of servers in a string ps ax | grep "BackupPC_dump -i" | grep -v grep | while read pid fl1 fl2 duration perl dump fl3 host rest; do for i in $hosts; do if [ x"$host" = x"$i" ]; then kill "$pid" >/dev/null 2>&1 break fi done done 1) Use a list of hosts and iterate with "for i in $hosts" instead of using C style iteration with number of elements in an array. 2) No need to use a temporary file, use |while on the output of ps instead. 3) Use "kill" instead of "kill -9" 4) Once a host is found, use "break" so that it does not iterate to the end of the list of hosts. You can even create a script file in which you remove the first hosts= line and replace "for i in $hosts; do" with "for i; do", in which case you can call it like this: # ./killbackups.sh server1 server2 server3 HTH, Filipe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/