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From: Jim Seymour <nntp.ff@thentao.com>
Subject:  Re: How do I kill a grandchild process from shell program?
Date:  Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:12:50 -0700
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Lev Bishop wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Jim Seymour <nntp.ff@thentao.com> wrote:
> 
>> However, if things don't work fine, the background process sticks around
>> to plague me later.
>>
>> I'd like to end my main script by killing the background process (if
>> it's still around), but I'm having a helluva time figuring out HOW.
> 
> How about:
> $ killall <progname>

Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately, "killall" is not part of my Cygwin 
installation - and I don't see which package contains it.

However, I may have solved my problem with this lovely mess:

    kill $!
    kill `ps | grep ocdremote | tr -s " " | cut -f2 -d " "`

The first "kill" stops the background bash process.  The second stops 
the utility in question.  Not as elegant as I'd hoped, but it seems to 
do the trick.

-- 
Jim Seymour


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