Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:14:58 +0000 From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: killall -9 program-name does not work Message-ID: <AANLkTin5JbPjrbMYEdoWK7xuUJy69foXKEGNp0jmx1aD@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear fellow FreeBSD users, I have a cron script that plays music in the morning when I arrive at work. in ~/.xalarm I have two lines, one that calls xterm and one that calls mplayer and plays a series of music files in a playlist crontab -l has the following # min hour day-of-month month day-of-week command # 0-59 0-23 1-31 1-12 0-6 0=sun 1=mon 00 07 * * 1-5 ~/.xalarm >/dev/null 2>&1 30 07 * * 1-5 killall -9 /usr/local/bin/mplayer >/dev/null 2>&1 and ~/.xalarm has #!/bin/sh # /usr/local/bin/xterm -display :0 -bg black -fg white \\ echo "-e /usr/local/bin/mplayer -really-quiet -shuffle -playlist ~/.playlist The music starts playing at 7:00 AM, but it does not stop at 7:30. I have a similar setup at home and I did not notice, since I altered root crontab to shutdown machine automatically at 6:00 am. I check manually with top and see that mplayer runs and I try to kill it from command line and I see that I am not the owner of that process so nothing happens. I get the pid of the process and apply killall -9 pid but it does not do it either. How can I stop mplayer from playing at 7:30 am? should I edit ~/.xalarm and remove the xterm command since I have xterm running before it calls out mplayer? Thanks in Advance for suggestions/advice/comments in this matter. Regards, Antonio Math Teacher New Grulla High School http://olivares14031.741.com/index.html , , /( )` \ \___ / | /- _ `-/ ' (/\/ \ \ /\ / / | ` \ O O ) / | `-^--'`< ' (_.) _ ) / `.___/` / `-----' / <----. __ / __ \ <----|====O)))==) \) /==== <----' `--' `.__,' \ | | \ / /\ ______( (_ / \______/ ,' ,-----' | `--{__________)
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