Hi,
is there any way to set the process name of a shell script? This is needed for killing this script with the killall command.
Thanks for any hint.
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Erm... unless I'm misunderstanding the question, the name of a shell script is whatever you've named the file. If your script is named foo then killall foo will kill it.
VoteyDisciple
2010-06-19 13:58:54
Not true. Try it. Create a file called "tst.sh", make it executable, have it do something like a "sleep 30", and fire it up. You'll note that the process name associated with it is "/bin/sh" or "/bin/bash" or whatever you put in the shebang line.
Brian Clapper
2010-06-19 14:06:20
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You cannot do this reliably and portably, as far as I know. On some flavors of Unix, changing what's in argv[0] will do the job. I don't believe there's a way to do that in most shells, though.
Here are some references on the topic.
Brian Clapper
2010-06-19 14:13:16
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Weboide
2010-06-19 15:02:14
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You can use the kill command on a PID so what you can do is run something in the background, get its ID and kill it
PID of last job run in background can be obtained using $!.
echo test & echo $!
Abs
2010-06-19 15:04:38
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On Linux at least, killall dvb works even though dvb is a shell script labelled with #!. The only trick is to make the script executable and invoke it by name, e.g.,
dvb watch abc write game7 from 9pm for 3:30
Running ps shows a process named
/usr/bin/lua5.1 dvb watch ...
but killall dvb takes it down.
Norman Ramsey
2010-06-19 16:41:02