Setting and killing processes?

KendersPlace · 03-12-2003, 11:48 PM

Two questions please...

1.
How can I kill a process using it's name, vise it's process ID? If I have five instances of "myscript" running, I'd like to kill all of them using their name and not the idividual PIDs as I can't see any other way to do it.

2.
Can I specify a parameter in a bash script that will always give it the same process ID ever time it is run (and possibly die out if a process w/ that ID is already running). I'd like to set my bash script to always have PID 20000 or something.

Thanks in advance!!

amit_rb · 03-13-2003, 05:09 AM

In case of problem 1, try
killall myscript
This gracefully kills all myscript instances.
Enjoy !!! Penguin

AltF4 · 03-13-2003, 06:32 AM

2) no, you can't , PIDs are generated by the kernel when a process is started and PID numbers cannot be selected by a user process

KendersPlace · 03-15-2003, 07:37 PM

Very helpful to my problem. Thank you very much for your help.

-K