Killing old processes

[lhg1]

Hi

I have a 3. part software that is leaving processes on the system.

I can easyly find the processes, becourse there should be any thats over 5 minutes old.

Is there a command to kill all processes thats over 5 min old?

Something like this but where only those over 5 min are captured

kill `ps -ef|grep sftp-server|awk '{print $2}'`

Thanks
LHG

 

[Annihilannic]

Try this:

ps -eo pid,etime,args | awk '
    /sftp-server/ { 
         etime=$2
         gsub("[-:]+","",etime)
         if (etime > 500) { print $1 }
    }
' | xargs echo kill

Take out the echo when you're satisfied that it's going to kill the right processes.

Basically it pulls out the ETIME (elapsed time since process started) field, which is in days-hh:mm:ss syntax, strips out the punctuation, pretends it is a decimal number and prints out those that have been running for more than 500 units (i.e. 5 minutes).

Annihilannic.