[SunHELP] Killing processes Part Deux

[David Bishop]

Worked like a charm.  See, this is why I love this list :-)  Now, it's simply
curiosity that makes me ask why the do loop wasn't working.  And I can sleep
tonight if I can't figure it out ;-)

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:34:02, Jarrett Carver said:

> 
>  Is `fuser -k /usr/usr3/bin/datd` not working?
>  
>  ----Original Message Follows----
>  From: "David Bishop" <david at bishop.dhs.org>
>  Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>  To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>  Subject: [SunHELP] Killing processes Part Deux
>  Date: 27 Feb 2001 13:00:10 MST
>  
>  So, the pkill command works *wonderfully* ... on my Solaris 7 boxen.
>  However, I have the same problem on Solaris 2.6, and it's giving me fits.  I
>  sat down and came up with a wonderfully simple way to do this in bourne
>  shell, but for some reason, it doesn't consistently work.  Any ideas?
>  
>  
>  bash-2.04$ a=`ps ax | grep datd | grep -v grep | cut -f3 -d" "`
>  bash-2.04$ echo $a
>  7713 7754 7755 7759 7761 7762 9057 9058 9059 9060 9061
>  bash-2.04$ for i in $a
>   > do `kill $i`
>   > done
>  bash-2.04$ ps ax | grep datd
>     7713 ?	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>     7754 ?	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>     7755 ?	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>     7759 ?	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>     7761 ?	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>     7762 ?	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>     2769 pts/0	R  0:00 grep datd
>  bash-2.04$ a=`ps ax | grep datd | grep -v grep | cut -f3 -d" "`
>  bash-2.04$ for i in $a; do `kill $i`; done
>  bash-2.04$ ps ax | grep datd
>  
>  So, there was two "sections" of datd running, first with pid's in the 77xx
>  range, and then in the 90xx range.  The first do loop only killed the 90xx
>  section, but doing the exact same thing resulted in the 77xx section dieing
>  the second time.  I'll admit, I'm confused.  And this *is* replicable
>  behavior, it happens every time.  Is there something obvious that I'm
>  missing, or is this a known bug?
>  
>  TIA and HAND,
>  
>  D.A.Bishop
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