[SunHELP] Killing processes Part Deux

[Wolfgang Engelien]

Are the 7xxx processes "related" to the 9xxx processes?
Maybe the 7xxx processes are not going down since their
childs (9xxx) have to go down first ...
I am not recommending it, but a kill -9 would probably
do it ...


>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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