SCO Unix Bulk Process Killer 1

[Steve Bowman]

I have a situation with one of my processes. It is a C executable that sends socket communication to another server as a receiver. When the receiving side gets hung or otherwise stops receiving my connects there is a long period until timeout. I am sending many socket connections per minute. What I ultimately end up with is a couple hundred "sender 171.1.1.102" processes queued up waiting for a timeout until they die a natural death.

What I am looking for is either command line ideas for a cmd or a script that will take the process name "sender 171.1.1.102" and do a kill -9 on them so I can clean up the mess when it happens without waiting for each to timeout naturally or kill them all with kill -9 [pid].

I realize I could just shorten the timeout but in some circumstances, I need the longer timeout.

Steve Bowman
Independent Technology, Inc.
CA, USA

 

[Salem]

Do you have pgrep and/or pkill available?
[pre]PGREP(1) User Commands PGREP(1)

NAME
pgrep, pkill - look up or signal processes based on name and other
attributes

SYNOPSIS
pgrep [options] pattern
pkill [options] pattern

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