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From: krh@root.co.uk (Kevin Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: problems with setuid (?)
Message-ID: <706@root44.co.uk>
Date: 16 Feb 89 13:59:37 GMT
References: <18213@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: krh@root44.UUCP (Kevin Hickman)
Organization: UniSoft Ltd, London, England
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In article <18213@adm.BRL.MIL> you write:
>I am having a problem (explained below) with killing processes using a
>c-shell script.

>
>kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep xnsstart | fgrep -v fgrep | cut -c1-5`
>kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep xnshelper | fgrep -v fgrep | cut -c1-5`
                                                          ^^^^^

You should not be using these particular options as how can you
be sure that the login name will start in column 1 and continue for
5 columns?

should read:

	kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep xnshelper | fgrep -v fgrep | cut -f3 -d" "`

As for why you are unable to kill your process, I don't know.
								*B)>-<

			Kevin Hickman.
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