Write PID to a File 1

[weweber3]

I need to be able to kick this process off at 12am and let it run until 6am and then kill the process. The process is a DB2 process, which is irrelevany. In order to kill that process I need the process id. I would like to kick off this command and append the PID to a text file for reference. Anyone have any idea how to do this?

Thanks.

 

[clonny2]

If you know the name of the process, the complete path name then type pidof {process name}

pidof sshd

and the pid number or numbers will return.


You then could redirect that to a file

pidof sshd > sshd.pid


Or you could do something like this

#!/bin/sh

PIDS=`ps -ax | grep {process} | awk '{print $1}'`
LOG=/var/log/my_log_file

for i in $PIDS
do
echo "Killing pid $i" >> $LOG
kill -9 $i
done


Try something like that.

 

[jstreich]

Howsabout launching it in a bat
The file might look like:

[green]somecmd[/green] [red]&[/red]
echo [red]$![/red] > [green]somefile[/green]

[plug=shameless]

http://game-master.us/phpx-3.4.0/

[/plug]

 

[Chacalinc]

take a look to the special variable [tt]$$[/tt] in your shell (ksh at least). Example:

[tt]my_process='echo $$'
killmyself='kill -9 $$'[/tt]

 

[danomac]

As jstreich said, try running in a script. I use these scripts to do this:

# Start the program
/path/to/binary
pid=$!
disown $pid
echo $pid > /var/run/binary

And this to kill it afterwards:

# Grab the pid and kill it
pid=`cat /var/run/binary`
kill $pid

You'll have to do some editing of course.