[SunHELP] Killing processes Part Deux

[David Bishop]

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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