Is there a way to write a shell acript that will kill all the instances of httpd daemon that are orphaned.

Usually use /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl to stop and restart server

It did not work and had to use kill -9 <pid>

killall -9 httpd

is there a way to put this in a shell script and automate the proess?

i used:

ps -ef | grep http

to see the process

if yes, how

Try this :

nope

bash: kill: nobody: no such pid

The PID column may be different for you. Change $1 in the awk command by the right column.

Thanks worked

Hi,
sorry for my english..
For me a command that you explain , kill all the process's daemon http, not only a "orphaned process".
Where it's the part that find the orphaned PID?
I'm interested in a command that identified a httpd process without father.
Thanks
bash: kill: nobody: no such pid [/SIZE][/QUOTE]

if "orphaned process" is a process without father (parent pid = 1), you can do :

$1 = User
$2 = Pid
$3 = PPid

Hi,
but when i start my httpd server in my unix(HP-UX), with user root (httpd listen port 80, and root it's the onlyone authorized) they are always a process with ppid =1:

root 16275 1 0 Feb 19 ? 0:55 /u09/app/oracle/9ias/Apache/Apache/bin/httpd -d /u09/app/oracle

If i kill this, all httpd down!

Thanks

Exclude root processes :

or

OK!
Merci beaucoup Jean Pierre!

Following is a bash script to kill htpd

#!/bin/bash
for pid in `ps -C httpd|sed -e 's/^\ \+//g' | grep httpd|awk '{print $1}'`
do
kill $pid
done