Shutdown Script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Im writing a script to read a file called shutdown.cf and shut down any scripts that are listed there.

I have came up with the following based on things I saw in similar programs but it doesn not work:

Has anybody any idea what I may be doing wrong?

Cheers
Paul

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scriptName="$line"
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"It doesn not work" means..? do you get undesirable result or any error. I have highlighted some suggestions below

scriptName=""
filename="/var/opt/moto/live/scripts/pwp_access/shutdown.cf"

while read line
do
scriptName="$line" # echo statement not needed
pidNumber=`pgrep -f "$scriptName"`
monproc=`ps -efa | grep "$scriptName" |grep -v 'grep'|sed 's/^[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9].*$/\1/'`
kill -9 $monproc

done < $filename

exit

One more thing..have a echo statement for pidNumber and monproc so that could confirm that you have the right value stored in those variables.

4

The matching is not very exact, therefore more processes may be matched than intended. Try:

ps -efa | grep " -*$scriptName$" | ....
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Got sorted. Cheers guys.