[SunHELP] Killing processes Part Deux

[David Bishop]

I was indeed using /usr/ucb/ps.  Now that my problem is solverd (via fuser),
does anyone have an idea as to why it didn't work in the first place using
kill?

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:29:35 -0500 (EST), Vinay Bharel said:

> Which ps are you using? Do `which ps`. If you are using /usr/ucb/ps then
>  ps -e will not work. You will have to use ps -x .
>  
>  There is /usr/ucb/ps and /usr/bin/ps. Looks like you are using
>  /usr/ucb/ps.
>  
>  - Vinay Bharel <vinay at bharel.com>
>  
>  On 27 Feb 2001, David Bishop wrote:
>  
>  > Umm..  Again, it killed one batch while leaving the other batch alone. 
>  > However, this time it wouldn't kill the second batch at all, just giving that
>  > bad argument count error.
>  >   
>  > bash-2.04$ ps -auxw | grep datd | grep -v grep
>  > wwwpe	  2819	0.0  0.5 4176 2536 pts/0    S 12:53:16	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  2823	0.0  0.2 4096  896 pts/0    S 12:53:16	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  2824	0.0  0.2 4096  896 pts/0    S 12:53:16	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  2825	0.0  0.2 4096  896 pts/0    S 12:53:16	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  2826	0.0  0.2 4136 1056 pts/0    S 12:53:16	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  2827	0.0  0.2 4136 1080 pts/0    S 12:53:16	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  7441	0.0  0.2 3072  808 pts/0    S 14:16:28	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  7442	0.0  0.2 3072  808 pts/0    S 14:16:28	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  7443	0.1  0.2 3072  808 pts/0    S 14:16:28	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  7444	0.0  0.2 3112  992 pts/0    S 14:16:28	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > wwwpe	  7445	0.1  0.2 3112 1072 pts/0    S 14:16:28	0:00
>  > /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  > 
>  > bash-2.04$ ps -e | grep datd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
>  > -9
>  > bash-2.04$ ps ax | grep datd
>  >   2819 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7441 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7442 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7443 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7444 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7445 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7534 pts/0	R  0:00 grep datd
>  > bash-2.04$ ps -e | grep datd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
>  > -9
>  > /usr/bin/kill[8]: kill: bad argument count
>  > bash-2.04$ ps ax | grep datd
>  >   2819 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7441 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7442 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7443 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7444 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7445 pts/0	S  0:00 /usr/usr3/bin/datd
>  >   7560 pts/0	R  0:00 grep datd
>  > bash-2.04$  ps -e | grep datd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'
>  > bash-2.04$
>  > 
>  > 
>  > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:38:35 -0500 (EST), Vinay Bharel said:
>  > 
>  > > You are making it too complicated. If you want to kill all processes named
>  > >  foo, just do...
>  > >  
>  > >  ps -e | grep foo | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill -9
>  > >  
>  > >  - Vinay Bharel <vinay at bharel.com>
>  > >  
>  > >  On 27 Feb 2001, David Bishop wrote:
>  > >  
>  > >  > So, the pkill command works *wonderfully* ... on my Solaris 7 boxen. 
>  > >  > However, I have the same problem on Solaris 2.6, and it's giving me fits.  I
>  > >  > sat down and came up with a wonderfully simple way to do this in bourne
>  > >  > shell, but for some reason, it doesn't consistently work.  Any ideas?
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > bash-2.04$ 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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