Kill process PID using cron

[Abhijeet_3]

On my server , perl process is utilising high cpu and memory.

I need to kill this perl process at a predefine time using cron.

I am able to find PID using
ps -ef | grep perl | awk '{ print $2 ; } '

how to use this value , to kill process.

What will be the correct syntax of script.

Abhijeet

[Alex Lavrov.]

ps -ef | grep perl | awk '{ print $2 ; } '
| xargs kill -9


"xrags" command takes all the stdin and sends it as arguments to the command, in this case "kill -9".

[Biswajit Tripathy · Accepted solution]

You might want to modify it a little as this:

ps -ef | grep perl | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

The middle "grep -v grep" is to make sure that your
"grep perl" process does not show up in the input to
perl.

- Biswajit

[Taulant Shamo]

Hi Abhijeet,

is better to create e file called killperlpid.sh which will be executed to Kill the process you need.

#cat killperlpid.sh
!/usr/bin/sh
kill -9 `ps -ef | grep perl | awk '{print $2}'`

Put it in crontab like below:
you can choose how ofeten do you want to run the script.
For example if you want it to be excecuted every 10 minutes.

00 10 20 30 40 50 * * * * /killperlpid.sh 2>&1


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Taulant

[Abhijeet_3]

Thx everyone.