Question

Process Id (Solaris)

Asked by: thomas908

I have executed the following command to see the process id and then kill them

ps -ef|grep weblogic

It gave me the below results

Can someone please let me know what the process id will be in the below table. There are 2 columns with numbers (second column and third column). Which column would be the process id.
Also to kill a process is "kill <process id>" the command that needs to be used?

Thank you

cdbisw4  6599 25254   0 11:45:55 pts/4       0:00 grep weblogic
 cdbisw4  3648  5843   0 11:44:32 pts/4       0:00 /bin/sh 
 
/dchob/appsvr/bea/weblogic/config/dchob/bin/startManagedWebLogic.sh dch
 cdbisw4  3650  3648   0 11:44:32 pts/4       0:00 /bin/sh 
 
/dchob/appsvr/bea/weblogic/config/dchob/bin/startWebLogic.sh nodebug no
 cdbisw4 18525 18522   0 11:20:56 pts/4       0:00 /bin/sh 
 
/dchob/appsvr/bea/weblogic/config/dchob/bin/startWebLogic.sh
 cdbisw4 18522  5843   0 11:20:56 pts/4       0:00 /bin/sh 
 
/dchob/appsvr/bea/weblogic/config/dchob/startWebLogic.sh

                                  
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2009-06-03 at 21:51:11ID24462571
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Unix Operating Systems

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Answers

 

by: KeremEPosted on 2009-06-03 at 21:57:56ID: 24543670

Hi,

the second column ins the process id, the third is the parent process id. Youcan use:

kill -9 <pid>

To prevent it to reject the kill signal.

Cheers,
K.

 

by: JIEXAPosted on 2009-06-03 at 23:54:18ID: 24544124

You can also use "pkill -<signal> weblogic"

 

by: thomas908Posted on 2009-06-04 at 02:12:41ID: 24544856

what should I specify in <signal>

 

by: KeremEPosted on 2009-06-04 at 02:34:56ID: 24544973

You would add -9 as I've specified earlier. The command is the same only it searches with process name instead of process id.

 

by: KeremEPosted on 2009-06-04 at 02:37:01ID: 24544981

kill -l will print the names and values of the signals where SIGKILL is 9 to kill a process
SUGHUP = 1 causes reread of configuration on most programs etc.

 

by: JIEXAPosted on 2009-06-04 at 03:06:18ID: 24545137

Note, that "-9" is a very violent way. You may wish it, or may not.
I'd do something like:
   pkill -2 weblogic ; sleep 10 ; pkill -9 weblogic
(The -2 is Control-C processor; may be there is a good shutting down procedure for the weblogic application)

 

by: KeremEPosted on 2009-06-04 at 03:17:42ID: 24545195

WebLogic has its interface for shutting down or starting up. This a question investigating methods for shutting it down through console. This is why I've suggested -9. It seems that this is the last resort if something goes bad and the service could not be stopped thrug java administration GUI or shell :)  

 

by: thomas908Posted on 2009-06-04 at 18:25:47ID: 24552862

>>WebLogic has its interface for shutting down or starting up. This a question investigating methods for shutting it down through console. This is why I've suggested -9. It seems that this is the last resort if something goes bad and the service could not be stopped thrug java administration GUI or shell :

You are right. Sometimes the server throws OutOfMemory errors after which it stops responding. In that case the Weblogic UI does not work. So I have to manually shutdown the services and restart Weblogic

 

by: KeremEPosted on 2009-06-04 at 18:39:08ID: 24552902

Yeah this is what I had thought. This is why I'd suggested you a non-maskable kill signal instead of terminate. I had the sam problem with Sun Enterprise server :)

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