stopping a perl script
 

Hi,

I am experimenting with a perl script run from the command prompt and looping in the background.

This is working fine. But as I am tweaking the perl script I need to be able to restart it.

When I try this I get the message:
Address already in use

How can I stop the script that is currently running in order to test the new one?

Thanks,
Ron

ps -ef
will give you all the processes currnetly running on your system with their PID's, just grep the script from it
ps -ef | grep -i script_name | grep -vv grep
use
kill -9 process id (PID)
to kill it
P.S. if the script is just used to run a job at background something like
system ("mozilla &");
then you should grep out the background process in this case mozilla and kill it.

killall perl_script_name

Before diving into Perl you should learn the basic of Unix administration srtarting with this how to:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html

And moviing on to these:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Another way is to bring the command back to the foreground and [Cntrl]+c

ie.

$ my_scipt.pl &

$ fg

$ my_script.pl; [Cntrl]+c

You guys are quick! :)

I just found out about kill. But then I thought how to get the matching process process number so thanks for that tip NEO77777

Thanks for those links and especially that last tip, Pickledbeans. Makes things easier!

Ron

Your more than welcome :)