[Xastir] Strange question....

Jerry Chamberlin jerryc at netlab.org
Mon Mar 7 11:34:11 EST 2005


So just cron a job 'killall xastir'



On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Jason Winningham wrote:

> #!/bin/bash
> # kill xastir
> ps -ef | egrep "xastir" | grep -v grep | grep -v "$0" | awk 
> '{printf("kill %s\n",$2)}' | bash
> sleep 3
> ps -ef | egrep "xastir" | grep -v grep | grep -v "$0" | awk 
> '{printf("kill -9 %s\n",$2)}' | bash
> nohup xastir&
> 
> 
> Note: ps flags may differ from system to system; these suite solaris.  
> You'd need -auxw on Mac OS X, for example; maybe -aux for some linux 
> flavors.
> 
> If it gets noisy (too many emails from cron with the output of the 
> commands), add "exec >/dev/null 2>&1" after the second line.
> 
> You would probably want some sort of check to see if the user was 
> logged in, and probably other sanity checks.  YMMV.
> 
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
> 
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