[olug] Unix Tip: RESTARTING PROCESSES

[Thomas Roehr]

It's just easier to use pkill.


Tom

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>RESTARTING PROCESSES
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>There are times when you are 
>testing a process and have to
>restart it again and again.
>
>Instead of doing a ps -ef to 
>know the pid and kill it manually
>every time, you can automate the 
>process by using the following in 
>a script.
>
>kill `ps -ef | grep \`whoami\` | grep myProcess | grep -v grep
>| awk '{print $2}'`
>
>The ps command on your flavor may 
>use "ax" instead of "ef".  Where 
>myProcess is the process that needs 
>to be restarted.  The awk commands 
>gets the 2nd field of the line, which
>in this case is the PID.
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