Hi all

Dont think I'll have any luck here, but I dont suppose anyone knows of any software that will kill an app at a certain time, or after x amount of mins/hrs, as gracefully as possible?

Thanks

Hong

How about a crontab entry:

kill -9 `ps a|grep process_name_to_kill|grep -v grep |cut -f1 -d" "`

Not exactly gracefull but it works.

thanks!

whoa! what are the switches for that command?

The part in backtics gets executed and fed into the kill command.

ps: list the running processes
|: send the output to
grep: find everything that matches (the process name in question)
|: feed that into
grep -v grep: find everything that does not match "grep"
(since the first grep also results in finding itself)
|: feed the results into
cut -f1 -d' ': grab the first column with column seperators defined as a space

The result of all that is the process number to kill. Try experimenting with the individual commands and look at the man pages for each. Be careful what you use the kill command on!

Also, make sure the process you want to kill has a unique name or you may end up killing something else. Overall, I don't think this is the best way to do what you want but I don't know of any other way right offhand.

-Erik

Thanks for the explanation kramtoad.

I'll have a play and see what I kill!!

Note that on most systems ' killall <your app name> ' should do the job

Thanks.

I have tried to use the kill command before, but I couldnt work out the syntax. Always complained about a PID number or something...