topic Re: stopping/ closing/pausing an application or process in Operating System - OpenVMS

stopping/ closing/pausing an application or process

nipun_2 — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:41:24 GMT

Hi,
I have openvms 7.3-2 3 node cluster with a common system disk.

One of the nodes (NODE1) had an application open which was not responding.

I used the other node(NODE2) to log in as system administrator and gave

$show users /node=NODE1 /full
OpenVMS User Processes at 2-SEP-2005 11:34:07.34
Total number of users = 2, number of processes = 10

Username Node Process Name PID Terminal
USER1 NODE1 BATCH_777 20203DED (Batch)
USER1 NODE1 DECW$MWM 202034B5 MBA8054: (disconnected)
USER1 NODE1 DECW$SESSION 202031F9
USER1 NODE1 VUE$USER1_2 202033B7 MBA8056: (disconnected)
USER1 NODE1 VUE$USER1_3 202034B9 MBA8058: (disconnected)
USER1 NODE1 VUE$USER1_4 2020343B (subprocess of 202031F9)
USER1 NODE1 VUE$USER1_5 20202BD2 (subprocess of 202031F9)
USER1 NODE1 _FTA353: 202037BE FTA353:
USER1 NODE1 _FTA355: 20203904 FTA355:

This gave all the processes and sub process etc.

I had two problems here
1) Difficulty in identifiying which process corresponds to which application.

2) I gave $stop _FTA353:
But it said no process exist.

I wanted to stop/kill the application on NODE1 as it was not responding. Also on the same line how can I pause a process

Please let me know whether this is the right approach or there has to be some other way.

Nipun

Re: stopping/ closing/pausing an application or process

Hein van den Heuvel — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:00:59 GMT

>> 1) Difficulty in identifiying which process corresponds to which application.

I like using
- ANAL/SYSTEM ... SHOW SUM/IMAGE
- SHOW DEV/FILE [device with executable]

>> I gave $stop _FTA353:

Use HELP to check the syntax.
You needed: STOP/ID=202037BE

You may also want to read up on DELPRC and FORCEX.

Hein.

Re: stopping/ closing/pausing an application or process

Ian Miller. — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:10:55 GMT

If the process is not in the same UIC group as yourself you can't use the name but have to use the process id.

to pause a process you can suspend it.
See HELP SET PROCESS/SUSPEND

See also HELP for STOP about the different between FORCEX and DELPRC