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Identify processes launched from a directory

viacava_1 — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:17:15 GMT

Hello,

I am writing a script that kills processes that were launched from a directory or a sub-directory of it.
I need to identify the processes to be killed.
I am doing that on machines with HP-UX 11.x. I know that lsof could help me but I am not sure it is installed on every machine.
Is there another way to do that ?

Thanks to any help
Jose

Re: Identify processes launched from a directory

mobidyc — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:23:30 GMT

Hello

Maybe with fuser ?
but lsof would be a better choice.

regards,
Cedrick Gaillard

Re: Identify processes launched from a directory

Kenan Erdey — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:42:26 GMT

Hi,

ps -efx shows full command names. you can grep from the output.

Re: Identify processes launched from a directory

viacava_1 — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:48:59 GMT

Thanks Mobidyc.
I know fuser but I can't see how to use it for my problem. Fuser list processes using a file but not processes launched from a known directory.

Jose

Re: Identify processes launched from a directory

viacava_1 — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:51:52 GMT

Thanks Kenan.
Ps -efx is ok if processes are launched with full pathnames.
But how to deal with people doing that :
cd toto; ./truc

Jose

Re: Identify processes launched from a directory

mobidyc — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:09:32 GMT

Hi,

you could identify executable commands in the directory and fuser them:
fuser -u /usr/sbin/fuser
/usr/sbin/fuser: 6976t(root)

a little bit ugly but it will work.

Regards,
Cerick Gaillard

Re: Identify processes launched from a directory

viacava_1 — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:22:52 GMT

Thanks Mobidyc,

Yes, a bit ugly but it should work.
I'll do that.

Many thanks
Jose