riccardo wrote:
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:11 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
difference between doing this script, and using the killall command?
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~ have been doing some [EMAIL PROTECTED]
. . . before doing a backup this morning, i gave root command :
< killall Fah > . . . but that did not kill [EMAIL PROTECTED] processes,
whereas, < kl Fah > did kill [EMAIL PROTECTED] processes
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"kl" being :-
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#!/bin/sh
#
# kill process/program
#
while true
do
kill -9 `ps aux | grep -i $1 | awk '{ print $2 }'` sleep 2
done
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best rgds
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I can see the difference, and I am not sure if I like it. It is too easy
to kill processes you don't want to kill. Nasty if you want to kill all
the "foo" processes, but not the "foobar" processes. kl would kill both
because grep would match both "foo" and "foobar" if you specified "foo".
Mikkel
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