simple pkill question...

[vcarrion]

Does Pkill just end the service.. or does it actually restart it as well? I have used the command in this way Pkill -9 java to restart java... but what happens if I do not append java with the -9? I'm working on a live phoneswitch running Redhat and figured asking would be better than just doing to find out. Thanks a lot.

[anyweb]

pkill kills a process

 

the process you killed probably has a daemon which restarts itself once stopped *or killled*

 

cheers

anywe

[hybrid]

So pkill itself isn't doing the restarting, the daemon is probably bringing the process back up once it detects that it is not running.

[Dungeon-Dave]

Pkill -9 java

You may want to refrain from the "-9" option: just pkill java will do the trick.

 

It may take longer for the java processes to stop, but they'll have a chance to shut down cleanly (and allow the OS to reclaim used memory, file handlers, etc)