[wplug] Killing processes

Andreas Rindler arindler at cmu.edu
Wed Nov 26 09:08:07 EST 2003


Hey,
I am having trouble restarting Evolution after my network connection has
either changed or was terminated. It leaves two process running and I
can't restart Evolution. My solution so far was to kill these processes
which lets me restart it. 

I am trying to automate this, but I can't quite get the syntax to work:

ps aux | grep evolutio n| awk '{print$2}'    

#gives me all processes that have evolution in the name

ps aux | grep evolution | awk '{print$2}' | kill

#and then the idea was to just pipe it to kill, but it doesn't work 
#also, the third process is the grep command itself, how do i skip that
one??

I would be grateful for any ideas...

thanks,
andi







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