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

[Stephen Davidson]

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Hi Wayne.

I will get into the theory later (thsnks!), right now I need a practical
solution.    And yours, with the Java Process launching in the
background, looks like it will neatly wrap up that startproc issue I am
having as well.

Q: Do you know if I will still need to use the Java Bin as the process
to check/act on for the CheckProc/KillProc commands?

Regards,
Steve

Wayne Walker wrote:
> in your script, somewhere you call java, no matter how complicated the script is.
> on the very next line do:
> 
> echo $! > /foo.manual.pid
> 
> Now you have a pid file you can trust.
> 
> As to why killing the parent script doesn't kill the child, that's a
> long discussion about signal handlers.  "man signal"  once you read that,
> if you still want to know more, email me on or off list.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:22:58PM -0600, Stephen Davidson wrote:
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