Questions tagged [pid]
PID (Process IDentifier) is the number that identifies a process running on an operational system.
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What process is the parent of the init process in Linux?
Who or Which process is the parent of INIT process?
INIT is the first process which is initialized by the Kernel, kernel is not one process, So what is its parent process id value?
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Getting pid of process not listed in ps -ef
I know there is a process called blt.pl running on a particular machine but not quite sure which user is running it.
i have tried ps -ef | grep -i blt.pl but obviously it's not finding it.
Is there ...
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The server quit without updating PID file
I am trying to install MySQL on my Mac w/ Mavericks OS. Whenever I try sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start it shows an error The server quit without updating PID file (/usr/local/...
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How to execute a script 20 at a time with different variables at a time in parallel?
I am trying to run 20 files at a time, using warc.sh or a better way to put it is 20 instances of warc.sh at a time with directory contents as the input. I am also trying to watch the PIDs in case bad ...
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Weird start-stop-daemon behaviour?
I have the following script:
#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
for s in sys.argv:
print(s)
Now I execute:
sudo start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/test.pid --make-pidfile /var/run/test....
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Does Windows 7 reuse process IDs?
Does Windows 7 reuse process IDs?
The reason I ask this question is due to my experience that Windows XP and Linux never seems to generate process IDs higher than 20–30k. However, my Windows 7 ...
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Squid Proxy process not running
Hey community,
some days ago my squid crashed. I'm running squid 2.6 STABLE21 on CentOS.
The output of the "show squid status" command is just
squid dead but pid file exists
starting the ...
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If I know the PID number of a process, how can I get its name?
If I have the PID number for a process (on a UNIX machine), how can I find out the name of its associated process?
What do I have to do?
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How to start a process with a predefined (in case it is unused) PID?
Is it possible to start/run a process with a predefined PID? In Linux or in OS X (or BSD)?
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Red5 on Debian, output PID
I'm fumbling my way through with this one, as a novice with all things linux so please be patient :)
I would like to output the process ID of a program to a file. From my readings this is generally ...
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Run a process and return its PID (as CHP.EXE) for a batch file
I'm looking for something like chp.exe, it can runs a command and returns its pid.
I can not use CHP.EXE because it seems to be reported as infected file in some antiviruses.
Thanks
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Is there a process with pid 0 linux? [duplicate]
Is there a process with pid 0 linux? Also is there any negative pids? This is just out of curiosity :D
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What processes, if any, exist between PIDs 0 and 4 on Windows 7?
Just out of curiosity what are the processes between 0 and 4, and also between 4 and 200 something.
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hide pid when a process is launched in background
So I put this command vncconfig -iconic &, this causes vncconfig window to launch and terminal will display like [1] 13488. I want to hide this pid info.
That is, when we put the command, only ...
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Install perl module from rpm file
I have a perl issue and obviously I'm not a perl expert. I can not use CPAN.
I've installed File::Pid using a rpm, or I tried. I downloaded perl-File-Pid-1.01-3.el5.noarch.rpm (and the perl-Class-...
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Interfacing strace with Process Name instead of PID
How do I implement a wrapper script pstrace in bash that changes the interface of
[sudo] strace -c -p [PID]
to
[sudo] pstrace -c -p [PROCESS-NAME]
similar to how
killall [PROCESS-NAME]
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How to find PID's user name in Linux?
Can you help me to find the PID's user name?
Sometimes my server has high load. When I run top -c, I cannot even find the owner of a process which is causing load on the server.
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Determine display or VNC session based on PID
I frequently VNC into a server where we run many concurrent computationally intensive matlab processes. Sometimes, one of my processes misbehave, which I can see from top, but I have a hard time ...
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Is a process PID guaranteed to stay the same as long as the process doesn't die?
I'm doing some simulation work with Linux, and the code I'm working on right now only works under the assumption that, once a process has been assigned a PID by the kernel, that PID will remain the ...
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Linux - alternative places where to store pid file instead of /var/run
As written in the title, where should I let the init script write the pid file? are there any standard paths I should choose instead of the /var/run?
Could /tmp be a good place where to store it or ...
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How to get the pid of a running process using a single command that parse the output of ps?
I am looking for a single line that does return the pid of a running process.
Currently I have:
ps -A -o pid,cmd|grep xxx|head -n 1
And this returns the fist pid, command. I need only the first ...
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Get PID of process started in screen by su
i have a simple script that starts quassel-core in a screen session as different user!
The script is:
#!/bin/sh
su ircc -c 'screen -dmS quassel /home/ircc/quassel/quassel-core'
I want to start and ...
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Excluding grep from process list
I have cobbled together a command to return the process ID of a running daemon:
ps aux | grep daemon_name | awk "{ print \$2 }"
It works perfectly and returns the PID, but it also returns a second ...
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Where can I find my (current shell process') PID?
I'm on OS X using ZSH (have lots of homebrew stuff, too).
I'd like to know the PID of my current terminal.
(I'm learning more about process management on *nix systems, pstree and the like, and so ...
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How do I locate the PID code for an ASUS laptop webcam?
I can't look in the Device Manager for the PID code because the camera has disappeared from the device list. The driver still shows up in programs list, but the camera doesn't work. Where else can I ...
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Show PID of process just launched in ZSH
Can I show the PID of a process that I just launched, ideally at the end of the line of the command?
Example:
root in ~: mysqld .................. [PID 34567]
12121 mysql-logs start to come in...
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Reattaching to screen - Linux
We run several screen instances from one box, eg. :
27185.pts-53.CentOS-57-64-minimal (Detached)
27209.pts-53.CentOS-57-64-minimal (Detached)
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How can I stop jenkins.pid in fedora15?
I have jenkins running, but I need to stop it. in /var/run I have jenkins.pid which is what the standard jenkins script uses to stop jenkins. The jenkins script uses start-stop-daemon which doesn't ...
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PID:4 using Port 80
I was trying to install Zend Server CE on my computer but when I got to the point were I need to choose the port for my Web Server it says: "Web Server Port: 80 Occupied". So I decided to check what ...
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Routing packets to different available networks using process' pid / uid
I need to route packets from some processes(unique pids/uids) to desired network connection.
So, Suppose we have 4 processes with pids 10, 11, 12, 13 respectively; and we have two network connections ...
