Remotely kill a process

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Hi guys,
is there a way to send a term signal or kill a process on a remote node from a shell script?

thanks

Jon

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ssh othernode "kill -TERM $PID"
3

Thanks for that

4

Pludi, do you have any idea how to end a process by name and not PID, since PID's change all the time.

thanks

5

Option 1: using killall <name>, but this will probably also get other processes by that name
Option 2: get the PID from ps -ef and then use it with kill

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Option 1: using killall <name>, but this will probably also get other processes by that name
Option 2: get the PID from ps -ef and then use it with kill

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or try

pkill <name>

risky thing

better

ps -ef | grep name

like pludi wrote

check the output, and then kill the process