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Old 01-31-2002, 03:53 PM   #1
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Question script at xwin start to kill old process(es)


I have written a web-based point of service application (SUSE 7.0 (but going to 7.2 shortly), Apache web-server & Netscape browser) that has a background process which controls its transaction processing. I have left in the CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE command just in case the user gets into somewhere from which there is no escape. This works well, but does not kill the background process - so when the windows manager restarts, an additional run of the background process is started.

Has anyone ever scripted a check for and kill of a specific existing background process? I'm looking for a sample/direction.

Thanks!!
 
Old 01-31-2002, 04:18 PM   #2
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Well, you could have the script check all the process entries in /proc for the cmdline of the program then kill that pid.
 
Old 01-31-2002, 09:16 PM   #3
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Modify your background process to write out its pid to a file in /var/run. The good daemon processes like mysql, apache, inetd do.

As for a script to check for and kill the process. Look at the apachectl script. I think it is a good example of what you are looking for.
 
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Thanks a ton! I'll be trying it out this weekend.
 
  


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