Thank you guys for your help. My problem is that I project to use this command to terminate a script when uninstalling the software, so I can't store the PID. This command will be integrated in the spec file of the RPM package. Here's the script I'll use, it may help someone else:
#!/bin/sh # PYTHON SCRIPT PROCESS KILLER by GBO v0.1 # This script will look for all the lines containing $SOFTWARENAME in the process list, and close them SOFTWARENAME='yoursoftware' #This is case insensitive JOBPRESENT=$(ps -ef | grep -i $SOFTWARENAME | grep -v grep) echo $JOBPRESENT ps -ef | grep -i $SOFTWARENAME | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill _________________________________________________________________ Pendant tout l'été, consultez vos emails Hotmail sur votre mobile ! http://www.messengersurvotremobile.com/?d=hotmail -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list