kill and pid files

kill and pid files

[Robert Stone]

	I find myself using "kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/<program>.pid)"
constantly... in fact, as root I use that line much more often than using
a literal pid.
	Is there any reason kill should not take a filename as an
argument?  i.e. if the job specification is not a legal job name, or a
legal pid, why not try to open a file with that name and see if it's
first line is a valid pid?

	Here's the idea, but this thing is horribly slow at times.

function mykill {
    args=()
    if ! kill "$argv[@]" 2> /dev/null
    then while [ "$argv" ]
        do case "$argv[1]"
            in
              -s)
                args=("$args[@]" "$argv[1]" "$argv[2]")
                shift 2
                ;;
              -l)
                args=("$args[@]" "$@")
                shift "$#"
                ;;
              -*)
                args=("$args[@]" "$argv[1]")
                shift
                ;;
              *)
                if echo "$argv[1]" | egrep -q '^%[0-9]+$'
                then args=("$args[@]" "$argv[1]")
                    shift
                elif echo "$argv[1]" | egrep -q '^[0-9]+$'
                then args=("$args[@]" "$argv[1]")
                    shift
                elif [ -f "$argv[1]" ] &&
                    head -1 "$argv[1]" | egrep -q '^[0-9]+$'
                then args=("$args[@]" "$(head -1 "$argv[1]")")
                    shift
                else args=("$args[@]" "$argv[1]")
                    shift
                fi
                ;;
            esac
        done
        kill "$args[@]"
    fi
}

Re: kill and pid files

[Timothy J Luoma]

On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Robert Stone wrote:

> 	Is there any reason kill should not take a filename as an
> argument?  i.e. if the job specification is not a legal job name, or a
> legal pid, why not try to open a file with that name and see if it's
> first line is a valid pid?

well, I don't have the file part, but I use this

pid () {

for i in $*
do
        echo `/bin/ps -auxwww | grep -v grep |
        grep -w $i | awk '{print $2}' | tr -s '\012' ' '`
 
done

}

and then use it for something like

kill -HUP `pid sendmail`

but it doesn't have the nice expansion/matching stuff... more often than
not I know exactly what I want to kill.  Note my version is only going to
match exactly (grep -w) and is case sensitive.

I don't know if this is anything like you wanted, I'm just trying to
contribute rather than just always asking ....

TjL

Re: kill and pid files

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

> well, I don't have the file part, but I use this
> 
> pid () {
> 
> for i in $*
> do
>         echo `/bin/ps -auxwww | grep -v grep |
>         grep -w $i | awk '{print $2}' | tr -s '\012' ' '`
>  
> done
> 
> }

Oh, this is a really overcomplicated solution for a simple problem.  How
about this:

pid () {
    local i
    for i
    do
        ps acx | sed -n "s/ *\([0-9]*\) .* $i *\$/\1/p"
    done
}

Under Linux, you can even do that without ps or sed:

pid2 () {
    local i
    for i in /proc/<->/stat
    do
        [[ "$(< $i)" = *\((${(j:|:)~@})\)* ]] && echo $i:h:t
    done
}

Zoltan

Re: kill and pid files

[Vardhan Varma]

On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Timothy J Luoma wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Robert Stone wrote:
> 
> > 	Is there any reason kill should not take a filename as an
> > argument?  i.e. if the job specification is not a legal job name, or a
> > legal pid, why not try to open a file with that name and see if it's
> > first line is a valid pid?
> 
> well, I don't have the file part, but I use this
> 
> pid () {
> 
> for i in $*
> do
>         echo `/bin/ps -auxwww | grep -v grep |
>         grep -w $i | awk '{print $2}' | tr -s '\012' ' '`
>  
> done
> 
> }
> 
> and then use it for something like
> 
> kill -HUP `pid sendmail`
> 

	thankfully i've a pidof on my linux box, so i can just say
	kill -9 `pidof doit`
	try it on you box who knows.....

Re: kill and pid files

[Matt Welland]

On Linux the killall command does what I need (I am forever doing "killall
diald" - but thats another story - *sigh*). However the little snippet
below just went into my .zshrc - AIX killall doesn't take process names as
parameters.

See - if you watch this list long enough at least 80% of those little
"argh - I must get around to writing that" bits of code will get written
for you! 

--Matt

On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:

> > well, I don't have the file part, but I use this
> > 
> > pid () {
> > 
> > for i in $*
> > do
> >         echo `/bin/ps -auxwww | grep -v grep |
> >         grep -w $i | awk '{print $2}' | tr -s '\012' ' '`
> >  
> > done
> > 
> > }
> 
> Oh, this is a really overcomplicated solution for a simple problem.  How
> about this:
> 
> pid () {
>     local i
>     for i
>     do
>         ps acx | sed -n "s/ *\([0-9]*\) .* $i *\$/\1/p"
>     done
> }
> 
> Under Linux, you can even do that without ps or sed:
> 
> pid2 () {
>     local i
>     for i in /proc/<->/stat
>     do
>         [[ "$(< $i)" = *\((${(j:|:)~@})\)* ]] && echo $i:h:t
>     done
> }
> 
> Zoltan
> 

Re: kill and pid files

[Timothy J. Luoma]

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	Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@ny.frontiercomm.net> wrote in
	Message-ID: <199706190642.CAA05741@hzoli.home>
	Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997

> Oh, this is a really overcomplicated solution for a simple problem.  How
> about this:
>
> pid () {
> local i
> for i
> do
> ps acx | sed -n "s/ *\([0-9]*\) .* $i *\$/\1/p"
> done
> }

Yes but what if there is more than one process by that name?

I usually want to kill them all.  This just kills one of them, whereas my  
solution kills them all (that's what the 'tr' part is for).... however, it  
may be "improvable":

Here's my function again

pid () {

 for i in $*
 do
         echo `/bin/ps -auxwww | grep -v grep |
         grep -w $i | awk '{print $2}' | tr -s '\012' ' '`

 done

}

it also takes multiple arguments, in case you need to kill several things at once

TjL


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Re: kill and pid files

[Wez Furlong]

On Jun 18, 12:25am, Robert Stone wrote:

: 	I find myself using "kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/<program>.pid)"

Isn't it more preferable to use $(< /var/run/<program>.pid) ?
This would bypass running cat, and certainly speed up your function by
using zsh's internal file reading.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong :)



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