I think I might prefer to keep it. Perhaps adjusting the ps command might
better solve the issue. I use this feature regularly myself.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019, 11:59 PM Mathieu Lirzin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The ‘:terminateOfbiz’ Gradle task is meant to be run when ‘./gradlew
> ofbiz --shutdown’ doesn't work.  Unfortunately this task is not working
> on my GNU/linux system because the output of ‘ps ax’ cuts long lines.
> As a consequence Gradle is not able to grep
> "org.apache.ofbiz.base.start.Start" even if it is actually part of the
> process command line as seen by the operating system.  As a reminder,
> here is the implementation of that task:
>
>     task terminateOfbiz(group: ofbizServer,
>         description: 'Force termination of any running OFBiz servers, only
> use if \"--shutdown\" command fails') {
>         doLast {
>             if (os.contains('windows')) {
>                 Runtime.getRuntime().exec("wmic process where
> \"CommandLine Like \'%org.apache.ofbiz.base.start.Start%\'\" Call
> Terminate")
>             } else {
>                 def processOutput = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
>                 exec {
>                     commandLine 'ps', 'ax'
>                     standardOutput = processOutput
>                 }
>
> processOutput.toString().split(System.lineSeparator()).each { line ->
>                     if (line ==~
> /.*org\.apache\.ofbiz\.base\.start\.Start.*/) {
>                         exec { commandLine 'kill', '-9',
> line.tokenize().first() }
>                     }
>                 }
>             }
>         }
>     }
>
> While it might be considered a bug at first hand, I personnally think
> this failure is more a symptom of a desperate endeavour which is to
> guess how the system of a user is managing its processes.  As a
> consequence I will suggest to simply remove this task to not make false
> promises to users and let them manage the processes on their system by
> themselves. :-)
>
> What do people think?
>
> --
> Mathieu Lirzin
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>

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