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From: brendan@illyria.wpd.sgi.com (Brendan Eich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Ical update wanted.
Summary: killall plug
Message-ID: <75585@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 03:44:57 GMT
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In article <1990Nov19.171917.15946@relay.wpd.sgi.com>, schuman@sgi.com (Aaron Schuman) writes:
> Dan>	Is there a simple way to bump the calendar program
> Dan>	at night so that is shows the correct day if you
> Dan>	leave it running overnight ?
> 
> I use this easy shell script (kept in ~/bin/cal_update):
> 
> 
> kill `ps -ef | grep ical | grep -v ep | awk '{print $2}'`
> /usr/sbin/ical
> echo "sh /usr/people/schuman/bin/cal_update" | at 0500 tomorrow

Another opportunity to plug killall(1M).  The script becomes:

    killall ical
    /usr/sbin/ical
    echo "sh /usr/people/schuman/bin/cal_update" | at 0500 tomorrow

If you don't want to dispatch ical with prejudice (killall delivers
SIGKILL by default), use

    killall -TERM ical

Kill(1) and csh's builtin namesake deliver SIGTERM by default.

/be