Re: Using crontab to end a process

Steven Manos wrote: something like... kill `ps aux | grep mplayer | head -n 1 | awk {'print $2'}` see pkill(1)

Re: Using crontab to end a process

On Jul 19, 2005, at 1:23 AM, Kent Kostuk wrote: I would like to schedule mplayer to record a radio station's online feed but can't figure out how to stop process. In Linux I was able to use killall mplayer. But that doesn't appear to be an option under OpenBSD. What do I need to do? man

Re: Using crontab to end a process

Try man pkill Next time before posting (and possible getting your ass flamed ) to this list try man -k KEYWORD In your example KEYWORD would be "kill" and magic: man -k kill baudrate, erasechar, has_ic, has_il, killchar, longname, termattrs, termname (3) - curses environment query routines k

Re: Using crontab to end a process

something like... kill `ps aux | grep mplayer | head -n 1 | awk {'print $2'}` On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:23:01PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote: > I am an OpenBSD neophyte and couldn't track this down in the archives. > If this has been covered before please let me know how to track this > informati

Using crontab to end a process

I am an OpenBSD neophyte and couldn't track this down in the archives. If this has been covered before please let me know how to track this information down. I would like to schedule mplayer to record a radio station's online feed but can't figure out how to stop process. In Linux I was able