Find and kill process

[paulmroberts]

Hi All,

Hope someone can help.

I am running memcached on a few servers, this runs OK.

What I would like to do is create a runtime script, so I can stop, start & restart the process any time if required and also so that it starts at boot time.

Starting the process in a script is straight forward, but stopping it is a bit different since the process ID changes each time.

So far I have been using a separate script to kill the process:

#!/bin/bash

if [$1 -eq ""]; then
echo "Usage : ./pkill.sh <process name>"
else
get_proc=`ps -e -o pid,command | grep $1`
echo $get_proc > get_it
get_pid=`gawk -F" " '{ print $1 }' get_it`
kill $get_pid
fi


but this requires me to run a script from within a script, I'm sure there is a better way...

Regards
Paul.

[unchiujar]

If the name stays the same you can try something like:

kill -15 $(pidof [name_of_process])

[paulmroberts]

Ah, thanks, I'll give it a go and let you know

[paulmroberts]

Hi,

I just get the usage message back

kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec]

Any ideas?

[anomie]

Try:
pkill name_pattern_here

See the manpages for pgrep(1) for more details on using pkill.

[iwanabeguru]

or maybe chose the easy way

killall -9 <process_name>

[paulmroberts]

pkill process_name did the trick.

Thanks everyone.