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

[Stephen Davidson]

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Stephen Davidson wrote:
> 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

I forgot to mention -- when I attempted to Google this issue, Google
only came up with (many) random entries on using Kill to stop a process.  :(

And I am really leary about using the actual executable directly
(although I will try that next), as the same executable is used for some
other server processes - and I don't necessarily want them all shutdown
when I try to shutdown the targetted one.

Regards,
Steve

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