HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

pgrep(1) pgrep(1)

pgrep -u root cron

Send SIGHUP signal to syslogd:

pkill -HUP -u root syslogd

Print PIDs of telnet sessions that are active for more than 2 days:

pgrep -e 2::: telnet$

WARNINGS

Process information can change while

pgrep or pkill is running; the picture it gives is only a snapshot

in time.

With the

-f option, pgrep and pkill

matches only up to the initial 1020 bytes of command line with the

pattern string.

pgrep and pkill will not match itself.

DEPENDENCIES

HP Process Resource Manager

The -R option require the optional HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) software to be installed and

conﬁgured. See prmconﬁg(1) for a description of how to conﬁgure HP PRM, and prmconf(4) for the

deﬁnition of process resource group.

If HP PRM is not installed and conﬁgured and

-R is speciﬁed,

pgrep or pkill fails with error message.

FILES

/dev Directory of terminal device ﬁles.