kill script

[iceman42]

no i dont have a grudge against anyone ;)

I have a java app that occasionally dies, and so i need to build in a check on my shutdown script to check if the java process is hanging and if it is I need to kill it.

Anyone have an idea?

[jatar_k]

shell script?

[iceman42]

Yes, sorry.

[trillianjedi]

I can think of two options:-

1. Tell it to stop.
2. Sleep for a bit
3. Grep the output of a PS AX
4. If it's still there issue a killall -9 ....

Or just (this one's ugly, but defensive ;-))

1. Tell it to stop.
2. Sleep for a bit.
3. Issue a killall -9 anyway.

To the best of my knowledge I don't believe that issuing a killall on a process that isn't actually running does any harm other than output an error to the console.

TJ