Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 19:38:19 +1000 From: "Gavin Cameron" <gavin@itworks.com.au> To: "S H A N" <shanali@singnet.com.sg> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Re[2]: How do I make a stop script Message-ID: <0fb101c21450$624a4950$6401a8c0@bugs> References: <547866371.20020615105033@e-box.dk> <20020615090937.GA22317@singapura.singnet.com.sg> <17510246263.20020615113013@e-box.dk>
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Soren,
Did you read the ps and awk manpages as you were advised to?
ps auxw returns the process ID in the second column... so you
want to change the awk command to read
awk '{print $2}'
I have no idea what the debian ps command returns so YMMV.
Gavin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Søren Neigaard" <neigaard@e-box.dk>
To: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; "S H A N"
<shanali@singnet.com.sg>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 7:30 PM
Subject: Re[2]: How do I make a stop script
> Saturday, June 15, 2002, 11:09:37 AM, S H A N wrote:
>
> SHAN> hi,
>
> SHAN> put the three lines in a file say killjava.sh and run it like
>
> SHAN> #sh -x killjava.sh
>
> SHAN> #!/bin/sh
> SHAN> PID=`ps auxw |grep "proximus"|awk '{ print $1}'`
> SHAN> kill -9 $PID
>
> I tried with this first:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> PID=`ps auxw |grep "proximus"|awk '{ print $1}'`
> echo $PID
>
> And it printed out 'root' 12 times (the number of threads my Java app
> is running), so I guess that did not work :)
>
> /Søren
>
> SHAN> for explanation pls refer to
>
> SHAN> $man ps
> SHAN> $man grep
> SHAN> $man awk
> SHAN> $man kill
>
> SHAN> rgds,
>
> SHAN> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:50:33AM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
> >> I am in urgent need to make a stop script for a Debian machine, I have
> >> asked this question on the Debian list, but this is the fastest and
> >> best list I know of, and since it should be almost the same for
> >> FreeBSD, I will give it a go here too.
> >>
> >> My Debian is running bash.
> >>
> >> I need to make a script that can find the PID for a Java application,
> >> where the process string contains 'proximus', and 'kill -9' that
> >> process. My Java process spawns quite some threads, so I need to kill
> >> the main process, not one of the threads.
> >>
> >> How do I do this, I have no clue, and no shell programming experience,
> >> so please explain it to me carefully, a complete example would just be
> >> great, with some explanation so I don't have to ask again :)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Med venlig hilsen/Best regards,
> >> Søren Neigaard mailto:neigaard@e-box.dk
> >> --
> >> "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
>
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