[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird Script behaviour -- killing script does not kill child processes - Why?

[Stephen Davidson]

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Greetings.

I've been working on a piece of Server software and have been having fun
and games with startproc.

The general idea:
Due to a fairly complex command line, I have a shell script that is
actually launching the server process.  The server process is a Java
process running as a child of that shell script.

The minor issue - even though the -p /file.pid is used, no pid file is
getting created.

The MAJOR issue - when the Shell script that launched the java process
is killed, either by startproc or otherwise, the child Java Process is
NOT killed.

Any ideas on how to kill a child process of a command line script
automatically, when there is no PID stored during startup?

- -Steve
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