killing a process when a user logout on FC3
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Tue Dec 27 12:29:57 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 14:08 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote:
> hey friends,
>
> I wanted to kill a process when the user logout.When the user logs in
> one can get the process id through this
>
> ps -ef | grep process > /etc/spli.txt
>
> But how do I kill the process when the user logout(.bash_logout) well
> there are 8 fields in /etc/spli.txt and the 2nd field is the pid
> which is needed by the kill command to end the process.
>
> How do I extract the 2nd field from the file(/etc/spli.txt), I know
> awk or with sed one can do it but I don't know these scripting tools.
>
> Can anyone help me in solving this issue ?
>
> I am using FC3.
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Ankush Grover
Ankush,
You could use cut -b 10-15 to get the pid from the output of ps -ef.
Alternately, you could use pidof. Ala pidof pidof to get the pid of
pidof.
Bob...
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