[mccrack]

Morning Ladies & Gents .

I need to cron a script that kills a process every evening . ( the cron's not the prob, it's the script ) . Getting the PID too kill is the problem . This is what i'm doing .

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#/bin/bash
pid= ps -ef | grep process | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'
# the above gives me the PID
kill -9 $pid
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the kill -9 however cant see the result of $pid

any ideas will be greatly appreciated.



Regards

Ronald

[Squashman]

Is there more than one PID associated with that process?
Do you have rights to kill the process?
What user is trying to kill the process?
What happens when you do it from the command line?
Can you just keep piping the output to the kill command?

[Squashman]

Oh crap. I know what the problem is. You need that in Single back ticks.

pid=`ps -ef | grep process | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

[mccrack]

You are an absoloute star!!!!! Thanx , that did the trick !!!!
Hmmm, back ticks .... never would have thought.

regards

ronald

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by mccrack

You are an absoloute star!!!!! Thanx , that did the trick !!!!
Hmmm, back ticks .... never would have thought.

regards

ronald

That is how you have to do it. Otherwise PID actually equals ps -ef | grep process | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'. Instead of the actual PID number.

Putting everything in back ticks tells your shell to execute everything within the back ticks.

I feel stupid for not seeing it right away.

[Whiteskin]

I suppose that's something I ought to get onto; Learning awk and sed.

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by Whiteskin

I suppose that's something I ought to get onto; Learning awk and sed.

I have been starting to use them both the last couple of months. The more I use them the more I like them. There is so much I don't know about either of them. They are both very powerful programs.

[tsunam]

I love awk, great useful app. I should learn sed but I'd have to learn the nromal imput method of it and ughuu~ it looks ugly.