Kill in script not killing all processes (HPUX)

SmurfGGM · 01-30-2015, 03:51 AM

Hi

I have a script running overnight to kill jboss process ..

Code:

for i in `ps -elfx|grep -i JBoss|grep -v grep|sed 's/[ ][ ]*/,/g'|cut -d',' -f4`
do
echo killing process $i
kill -9 $i
done

however, the script isn't killing off all the processes.

If I run the ps command, it is picking up all the processes correctly.

This seems to randomly happen.

I have tried running the script as the user of the procesess and as root, with the same random results.

Any idea's?

PS: This is on HPUX.

Thanks in advance

pan64 · 01-30-2015, 04:30 AM

yes, some processes cannot be killed (at all). It depends on the state of that process (or better to say what's happening currently in that process).