[surfnschultz]

I know how to kill them very well, how can I automate this process? I get hung termainals form our retail stores when the network drops out. I then need to manually kill off the hung processes 20-30 one at a time. What can be done to automate the kill process?

[surfnschultz]

Is there a script or utility that can assist in killing processes? I remember a thing we used to play with called Assasin you put in a name and it kills all processes with that name. This nice tool got us in trouble once, and that is why I remember it. It's not good to kill root on a unix box

Anyway this is the type of thing I am looking for.

[surfnschultz]

So I found some info on the web and got it working, but now my question is: How can I pass to a ksh script the value to look for.

The script is:

for spid in $( ps -ef | grep TEST | awk {'print $2'})

do

kill -9 $spid

done

I want to be able to pass a name or number in and have it placed where TEST is in the script.

I am running on AIX using ksh
Thanks.

[Squashman]

Could you post an example output of your processes.

[surfnschultz]

I am remebering my scripting slowly and painfully. I used the $1 agrument and that was how I can pass a agrument to my script.

Thanks all for the help it was awesome and fun