--- Greg Stigers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm looking at how to cleanly end jobs
> running POSIX programs (such as my ssh job stream), preferably by
> killing the appropriate pid. But on PS.HPBIN.SYS -A > PSLIST

in my experience (which ain't saying a lot), i've found that most of
these posix applications create a pid file on start-up.  it would be
worthwhile to do a 'find . -name *pid* -print' (having navigated to the
correct directory first) to see if such a file exists.  it would also
be worthwhile to do a google search.  certainly you're not the 1st
person to have gone down this path....

if ssh does not write to a pid file, you might try something like the
following (from the start up for postgres sql):

!xeq sh.hpbin.sys  "-L -c '&
!  postmaster >>../CURRENT/etc/postmaster.log.$$ 2>&1 -i &; &
!  echo $! >../CURRENT/etc/postmaster.pid; &
!  chmod 644 ../CURRENT/etc/postmaster.pid; &

you'll want to adapt the last two lines for ssh.

once you have a pid file.  halting the process is straight-forward
(from one of the samba shutdown jobs):

!if finfo("/SAMBA/CURRENT/var/locks/nmbd.pid","exists")
!      "-c 'kill `cat /SAMBA/CURRENT/var/locks/nmbd.pid`'"
!  purge /SAMBA/CURRENT/var/locks/nmbd.pid

hth        - d

Donna Garverick, HP-CSA   Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
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