[geeks] Killing process by name with cron.

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:54:28AM -0700, William S. wrote:

> Is there any script I can write that can kill the
> process by name?

As discussed in {geeks|rescue} passim, some systems have a 'killall'
command which does this, but failing that, try something like:

kill `ps a|awk '/PROCESSNAME/ { print $1 }'`

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