kill process

[Nobody's Hero]

One of our dba's ran the following command and was not able to kill it. Actually, you cant find a process id to kill it at all.

nohup gzip -d < 041303hrpt.dmp.gz > pipe.dmp &

anyone know how to kill this process ?

10x

RPM

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Robert,

Check out Bill Hassel's comments on killing processes in this question

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xc8d7a135f587d5118ff00090279cd0f9,00.html

Robert-Jan.

[John Meissner · Accepted solution]

This command can only be run immediatly after the script is executed. It shows the PID for the last command executed
echo $!

after you have the PID you can kill the process

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Ahhh sorry Robert misread your question.

[John Poff]

Hi,

You don't have any gzip process running? Try this and see if you get anything:

UNIX95=1 ps -fC gzip

If it doesn't find it the process may have completed already. Do you have anything in the pipe.dmp file?

JP