how to kill process at specified time...

[dhananjayingroup]

Dear all,
i want to know aboout kill command in linux.how can kill the process at a specified time? plz guide me on that.......

[stokes]

Hello,

You can use cron to schedule a command to run at a specified time. use

crontab -e

to add your new cron job. Use wikipedia to learn a bit more about cron first:

cron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

To kill a process you can either refer to its process ID, i.e.

kill 1234

Use ps -ex first to see the process ID's for each process (check the PID column)

Or you can kill a process by refering to its name, i.e.

killall gnome-panel

Hope this helps

[dhananjayingroup]

Thank you stokes,
your solution really works for me.

[garry_3peace]

If I am not mistaken, you also can use at. If cron will run periodically, at will only run only once...