Re: unable to find running php script

ah yes ... Dan said it better :) but then he is a bigger nerd than me ... he has a truck which is more dalek than pickup :-P Daniel Brown wrote: > On 10/26/07, Jean-Christophe Roux <jcxxr@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> I am runnign on a Centos 5.0 php 5.1.6 as Server API Apache 2.0 Handler >> I launched a script, which contains an infinite loop, from bash typing: >> php script.php >> >> I'd like to end that process. when typing ps -A, I don't see it. Is it >> inside the Apache server? How could I reach it? I am quite lost. >> More surprising to me is that after I rebooted the server, the script >> was still running. >> >> Any idea how I could kill that "process"? >> Thanks >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > If you broke it (CTRL+C) from the command line, then it wasn't a > process, and you successfully killed the loop. > > If you ran it like so: > php script.php & > > Then it daemonized it, which means you should type: > ps -ef|grep php > > That will give you the PID on the left, and you can then type: > kill -9 [PID] > > .... where [PID] is the PID number you saw. > > Because you ran it via the CLI, at no time was Apache involved whatsoever. >