Hi
In a AIX 5.3L environment we have a problem : Some processes dont dye
and we need to kill them. The problem is that the processes who are
under those processes, are adopted by by the process 1 (init). Is there
any way, script or utility that permites to kill the main process and
automatically kill the processes under it (and not being adopted by
process 1)?

TIA
Karl

Karl69 wrote:

> Hi
> In a AIX 5.3L environment we have a problem : Some processes dont dye
> and we need to kill them. The problem is that the processes who are
> under those processes, are adopted by by the process 1 (init). Is there
> any way, script or utility that permites to kill the main process and
> automatically kill the processes under it (and not being adopted by
> process 1)?
>
> TIA
> Karl

Your best bet is to find and fix the applications that are causing this
behavior.
A script to kill orphans or defunct processes is not the way to handle this
IMHO.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:26:56 -0500,
Don Davis <aixdude@yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> Your best bet is to find and fix the applications that are causing this
> behavior.
> A script to kill orphans or defunct processes is not the way to handle this
> IMHO.
>

Orphans are not defunct and defuncts are not orphans. The only way to
kill would be orphans is to have the parent process catch the signal and
do the killing of its children. If you make the parent and its children
members of a separate process group you can kill the group instead of the
parent process, and all processes in the group would receive the signal.


Villy