On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 14:08 +0530, Ankush Grover wrote: > hey friends, > > I wanted to kill a process when the user logout.When the user logs in > one can get the process id through this > > ps -ef | grep process > /etc/spli.txt > > But how do I kill the process when the user logout(.bash_logout) well > there are 8 fields in /etc/spli.txt and the 2nd field is the pid > which is needed by the kill command to end the process. > > How do I extract the 2nd field from the file(/etc/spli.txt), I know > awk or with sed one can do it but I don't know these scripting tools. > > Can anyone help me in solving this issue ? > > I am using FC3. > > Thanks & Regards > > Ankush Grover Ankush, You could use cut -b 10-15 to get the pid from the output of ps -ef. Alternately, you could use pidof. Ala pidof pidof to get the pid of pidof. Bob...
