Killall missing?

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OSMC 2015.09-2

I’m running a custom script that uses rtmpdump to capture a stream, and dumps it to a mp4 file. While the script is running this is what ps w shows:

root@osmc:/# ps w
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
717 pts/0 Ss 0:00 -bash
843 pts/1 Ss 0:00 -bash
1242 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/thaitv3
1244 pts/0 S+ 0:00 rtmpdump -r rtmp://58.97.57.152/live -a live -W http://www.one2hd.com/swfs/mediaPlayer/mediaPlayer.swf -p http:/
1246 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps w
root@osmc:/#

When I run:

killall -9 /usr/bin/thaitv3

It says command not found. That’s a standard linux command. Why is killall missing?

My goal is to kill rtmpdump and thaitv3 script with a cronjob.

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It’s not.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install psmisc

will get you it though

killall depends on procfs. It’s not considered part of the LSB. Both processes you have shown only have a single PID and so could easily be killed with

kill $(pidof rtmpdump); kill $(pidof thaitv3)

Sam

3

kill $(pidof processname)

will actually work even if there are multiple processes with the same name - pidof will return all matching pids and kill will accept multiple pids to kill… :smile:

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u could use pkill its available and working good AND u can kill a process by it’s name