topic Re: kill in Operating System - HP-UX

kill

Nobody's Hero — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:40:35 GMT

Any idea how I can allow a user to kill only sendmail processes using sudo?
I installed sudo but dont want to give him the access to kill any root process. Only sendmail.

Re: kill

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:45:55 GMT

Hi:

Use 'sbin/init.d/sendmail stop' or use 'killsm'. See the manpages for 'killsm(1M)'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: kill

F Verschuren — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:55:31 GMT

if it is only for the hanging jops and not sendmail it self:
#!/bin/ksh
ps -ef |grep sendmail |grep -v "accepting"| awk '{ print $2 } ' |while read line
do
sudo kill $line
done
asuming you sendmail deamon runs as:
root 1092 1 0 10:29:52 ? 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections

Re: kill

Hasan Atasoy — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:56:38 GMT

wriet a script like

#!/bin/sh

kill -9 `ps -ef | grep sendmail | grep -v grep`

and use sudo for this script.

Hasan.

Re: kill

Hasan Atasoy — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:56:59 GMT

wriet a script like

#!/bin/sh

kill -9 `ps -ef | grep sendmail | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`

and use sudo for this script.

Hasan.

Re: kill

Sandman! — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:59:55 GMT

How about giving a user the ability to run sendmail as root? See "Runas_Spec" parm in the /etc/sudoers file viz.,

= (root) /usr/sbin/sendmail

the above would give the named user the ability to run sendmail as superuser.

Re: kill

Geoff Wild — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:05:39 GMT

Better yet - don't run sendmail as root!

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-91064/ch02s07.html

And others...

Rgds...Geoff

Re: kill

Geoff Wild — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:36:40 GMT

BTW - it is a bad idea to kill -9 the sendmail daemon pid.....

Just my 2 cents (and I'm pretty sure others)....Geoff

Re: kill

Sandman! — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:30:07 GMT

I like JRF's suggestion since the kill "-k" command line option to sendmail has been deprecated. Earlier one could "sendmail -bk" to kill the daemon process which has now been replaced by killsm i.e.

= (root) /usr/sbin/killsm