[Gllug] killing a process and child processes

[Andy Smith]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:56:59PM +0200, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> On Mon, June 25, 2007 16:52, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 04:42:14PM +0200, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> >> I need some code which does the following - send a sighup to a process
> >> and
> >> all child processes of that process.
> >
> > kill with a negative process ID?
> 
> Yes !
> 
> But how do I get the process group of "/usr/bin/foo" ?

You don't need to; get its process ID and then kill -<pid>.  You
could use pgrep to find it if you didn't store it when foo was
started.

Cheers,
Andy

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