Marcel Runte wrote:
> Colin wrote:
>> I've noticed that several (read: all) of my initscripts which use
>> killall to end processes like syslogd, klogd, and httpd consistently
>> fail, saying "no process killed" strangely. Sure enough, if I try it at
>> the command line, it doesn't work.
>>
>> I can obviously use kill -9 to kill things, but then I need the pid in
>> order to include it in an initscript. Busybox doesn't have a command
>> line switch to write a pid when something is launched.
>>
>> How can I kill syslogd and other processes effectively without needing a
>> pidfile?
>
> Not quite sure:
> By grepping the processlist for the process name and isolating the pid? Or
> isn't ps working without proc in busybox?
pidof and killall can't get the pid of them 'cause they can't tell that
they are actually busybox processes.
Here's the little bash script I wrote to solve this:
get_pid{
ps | awk /$1/ | awk '{print $1}'
}
Usage: get_pid <process to be get pid of>
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