service; ps & grep help

[Mogens Kjaer]

James Pifer wrote:
...
> A little background, I have a java based application that I've used a
> custom start and stop script for. Basically the stop script does:
> stop() {
>         for pid in `ps -efww | grep myapp | grep -v grep | cut -b 10-15`;do
>                 #echo $pid
>                 kill -9 $pid
>         done

Can't you add a line with

ps -efww >/tmp/panic1.log

before the "for" line and a

echo $pid >>/tmp/panic2.log

before the kill line and check afterwards what has happened?

Mogens
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