"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have few ugly shell scripts which do a lot of WHOIS queries, which
> I've found are prone to hang for a long time. The simple thing to do is
> to hunt for whois queries, then, and periodically kill them:
>
> while sleep 600
> do
> ps aux | awk '/[w]hois/ {print $2}' | xargs kill
> done
>
> Of course, this is a bit indiscriminate: it kills any WHOIS process
> that happens to be running at the moment.
Not only that; it kills any process which has "whois" in its command
line. You might want to look into pidof and/or killall.
Martin
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