Need help with process kill script

[fathead]

I need a script that will kill a process when a user logs in. This is the process that runs when they are running their software:

term2 25576 25557 0 Jan-30 ttya02 00:00:38 /u/dlcrt/bin/_progres lpgas -e 63 -p MAIN.P -o lpr -s -l 175

I want to kill this process if they login a second time. Users are closing the terminal emulator window before logging out causing licensing issues.

I am using the script below at another location, but I did not write it. I tried using this as a template but nothing worked.

Any help would be appreciated


whoami|tee usrfile
usr=`cat usrfile`

ps -no-heading -U $usr|grep rts|cut -c 1-5|tee testfile

num=`cat testfile`

kill -9 $num

# End of the runkillcp script
# Start CP now

cd /u/syn
./syn

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[KenCunningham]

It may be that the process left behind becomes a zombie, in which case the kill probably wouldn't have any effect. Not sure whether there are any other avenues except rebooting to kill these.

 

[Hidsjer]

You're using this scirpt at another location. Is it working there? Did you make a copy to this location?
If so, it might be that syn isn't an executable anymore.
When you use ./ the file has to have the +x permissions.
If it hasn't, you can set them by:
#chmod +x syn

 

[PHV]

Your "script at another location" is not for SCO Unix (at least not for OpenServer).
What about this ?
num=`ps -fu $LOGNAME | awk '/[_]progress/{print $2}'`
[ "$num" ] && kill -9 $num
# start the app


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