pkill has a -g option to send a signal to a process group. --- Vladimir
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:48 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > > > > I think (untested) you can do something like > > > > trap 'kill <pid of child>' TERM > > > > at then beginning of parent.sh. This way, when the parent recives TERM it > > in turn sends a TERM to the child. If you want the parent to terminate, > > add the exit command as well: > > > > trap 'kill <pid of child>; exit 1' TERM > > > But how to find out the PID of child? What would be convenient is a way > to send signals "recursively" to a process and its children. > Maybe I'm trying to solve a problem with wrong tools... > Thanks, > > Jorge Almeida Vladimir G. Ivanovic Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
