[SunHELP] Killing processes Part Deux

[David Bishop]

Nope, they aren't related other than they are the same program.  And I am
fairly leery of kill -9'ing daemons.  They always seem to do stupid stuff
when I do...

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:49:21 -0500, Wolfgang Engelien said:

> 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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