Looking for a way to find a PID and kill the process it belongs to

johngreenwood · 01-10-2007, 09:00 AM

Hi all, I have an animation which plays during boot. I added a kill command with the PID to the startup scripts, but as the PID is subject to change it's not always reliable. I am looking for a way to find the PID automatically and kill the process, here is what I have so far:

Code:

ps | grep "fbmngplay" | cut -b 1-5 > fbm

Now I need to find a way to get the information from the file "fbm" to the kill command, but how? Also, if anyone knows a better way to achieve this, that would also be appreciated, thanks.

John

homey · 01-10-2007, 09:03 AM

This might work for you
kill $(pidof fbmngplay)

johngreenwood · 01-10-2007, 09:08 AM

Thanks for that homey, It worked like a charm. And there I was messing with all that crap. I need to learn more.

Thank you

John

homey · 01-10-2007, 09:20 AM

You're weclocme!

ygloo · 01-10-2007, 11:56 AM

you could stop it from running instead of killing it

johngreenwood · 01-10-2007, 12:27 PM

How would I stop it from running instead? What would that mean? Would the process still be there but not doing anything?

fotoguy · 01-14-2007, 05:45 AM

If its a running process it's most likely started from a script or a binary, just find out how it's started and make script/binary non-executable.

chmod -x /some/script/somewhere