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Is it possible to create a non-forking vnc service?
I followed this article to create a vnc service. The service is forking and uses a PID-file. My version of the service description — [email protected] — looks like this:
[Unit]
Description=Start ...
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RHEL + kill -9 not really killing the process
We have around 85 running process with lshw
Since these process increased the CPU load average ,
We tryed to kill them with kill -9 but without success
root 3275 0.0 0.0 131720 8992 ? D ...
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How to get PID of python3 working program
I want to write a program on bash that will restart my script once every some time.
The program runs in an infinite loop and launch like this:
Python3 main.py
So to restart it, I need to do
Kill [pid]...
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How can i dump the contents of a file that was opened with nano in a running process? (Linux)
I have run the command ps -ef and found the following :
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 12:30 ? 00:00:00 socat tcp-l:1024,reuseaddr,f
root ...
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Is it possible to retrieve the PID number of a specific chromium tab?
I'm trying to introduce a solution to a problem and in order to achieve that, I need to get the PID number of the Chromium process that displays a specific webpage (ie. http://localhost:4025).
Is it ...
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How to open 100 file with one proccess?
I know the output of ulimit -S -n is the number of fd that a process can handle or create. How can I open files more than that number to reach the limit of my system with one process ID?
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Portable way to find all PIDs by cmdline
I want to find the PID of all processes which were run by a cmdline call which contains a certain string my_exec.
For instance, with macOS or Ubuntu, open a terminal and run /bin/bash, and then in ...
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How can I find the PID for software where the name of the software is different from the executable?
I run "Videos" software from the Dash in Ubuntu. After some minutes the software freezes.
I've tried searching for the PID of the software to kill it, but I can't find any result with these commands:
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how do I get the PID list and USERNAME of each of those PIDs in LINUX using python?
I am trying to get the PID's and their respective usernames for displaying something similar to the top command in linux. I managed to get the list of PIDs but I am unable to fetch any username for ...
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How do I figure out a root cause of a zombie process?
A process on a production linux server became a zombie with unknown reason. I wonder if there is a certain methodology to find out what causes it.
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How do I determine the PID of my python program if there is more then one python program running?
I have two python programs running on my system, say they are called program x and program y.
I want to get the pid of program y, but not x for my bash script. When using pgrep python, I get the pid ...
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Restart process on linux by its pidn number with kill command, how?
Well, I want to be able to restart processes on linux and so I looked into kill manpages for that. Apparently kill -l would list all the signals I could send to a process to do what I need, which are:...
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How to find out who (what process) is starting another process?
So no matter how many times I kill exim4 it immediately comes back to life. I have stopped the service and everything but something is bringing it back to life and using it for spamming.
How do I ...
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PID of background task is different to the listed task PID using ps
Note: I h ave moved this to stack-overflow, I think that is the right place: here
I have a strange issue, I can't quite get my head around. What I do is run a function called fn_rundumper which ...
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How to view the calling script on Linux [closed]
I am trying to write a script to help with computer security. I am trying to look for open ports, find the PID, and find what called it.
I have it working, where my output looks something like this:
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