If you had made your command a reasonable length, say less than 15
characters, "mirrormandrake" would do, you could just say:
killall mirrormandrake
you can still kill it by going after the full pathname of the script
with
fuser -k
fuser is really neat. Read the man page.
Read man pages at random. Unix has lots of neat commands.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Dan Browning (Network Admin) wrote:
> I need to be able to kill a parent process based on the child process
name.
> I can use "ps aux | grep xxx" to find the parent parent process ID -
but how
> do I get that number out of that line? I need to pipe that number to
kill,
> so that the parent is dead and all it's children die. I tried to pipe
it to
> cut, but I couldn't get it work every time. Or maybe there is a
command
> that reports the parent of a process? That would be the handiest.
>
> Some more background info:
>
> Thanks to your guys' help, I have a simple script (included below),
that
> just runs a few programs in a loop for me. But the parent of the
process
> is -bash. The problem is when I want to stop the mirror program. Of
course
> I can't just "killall mirror" because the shell will just start another
one
> (because of the loop). Now, because the parent is bash, then I would
have
> to kill all bash processes (assuming I don't know which bash started my
> "mirror"s) to get the child processes (mirror) to stop.
>
> Is there a command that will return the name of the parent of a given
> process? Then I could pipe that to killall.
>
> Here is the contents of the file newmirrormandrake.sh
> ----------------------------
> M=/home/danb/mirror/mirror.mandrake
>
> while true
> do
> mirror -pMandrake $M
> mirror -papps $M
> mirror -pdoc $M
> mirror -pdosutils $M
> mirror -pimages $M
> mirror -pmisc $M
> done
> ----------------------------
>
> TIA.
>
>
> Dan Browning
> Network Administrator
> Cyclone Computer Systems
>
>
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