Re: Killing Applications using ARD

Subject: Re: Killing Applications using ARD

From: Nick McSpadden <email@hidden>

Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:51:00 -0800

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On Feb 13, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Theresa Bright wrote:

Hey,
I have five computer labs using ARD 2.2.....
How can they quit applications without shutting down or logging students off?
The 'killall" command only seems to work for Safari but not for other apps like Word, Excel, or any other software.
Any Ideas...............?

There's an interesting limitation I've discovered about the kill command. When you use "killall" based on the name of an application, it seems to look around the process list based on a certain size of window.

For example, send "ps aux" as a UNIX command to a machine; it usually cuts off the full list of results. For whatever reason, if you don't include the -a argument to "ps", the Office products tend not to show up in the process list. Just doing "ps x" on a machine running Word will not show Microsoft Word in the list. A way around this is to use "ps auxc" to get a list of all applications that are running, but not the full paths. This'll give you the end result you need.

In other words, on a machine running the software you want to kill, i.e. Microsoft Word, run this:

ps auxc | grep "Microsoft"

Once you have the PID # of the process you want, just use "kill -9 <pid>" (without the quotes, obviously).

Nick McSpadden

Schools of the Sacred Heart

Technology Network Assistant

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