Hi everyone,

I am wanting to do the following:

check if a process is running, if it is then we kill it.

I have been able to get the PID of the process which is now known as

$PID

but i need to now using:

ps -ef | grep $PID | grep -v grep

I can list the item but then how do I go about checking etc.

something like

$CHECK=`$ps -ef | $grep $PID | $grep -v grep`

if [ $CHECK == "" ]
echo "Service has shutdown correctly"
fi
echo "Service did not shut down correctly"
echo "Killing service"
kill -9 $PID

it is the if [ blah blah ] that I am unclear on.

Thanks

got it already haha sorry to waste your times...

pid=213 # example only :P
CHECK=`$ps -ef | $grep $pid | $grep -v grep`

if [ "$CHECK" ]
then
echo Service did not shut down correctly... forcing shutdown
kill -9 $pid
exit 0
fi
echo Service Appears to have shutdown

Hii,
i did not get through the idea behind the code .. can u please clarify...

Hitesh

basically i have the PID of a service running. I run a stop script however sometimes the stop fails. then when my service tries to start up again it complains because it cant bind to the port.

so what i do is ps for the PID... if it exists then i kill it.