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Process Identifier (PID)

In computing, the process identifier (normally referred to as the process ID or just PID) is a number used by most operating system kernels (such as that of UNIX, Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows) to (temporarily) uniquely identify a process. This number may be used as a parameter in various function calls allowing processes to be manipulated, such as adjusting the process's priority or killing it altogether.

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Looking for way to log process terminations on OS X (Mac)

I'm looking for a way to log all process terminations on my Mac (OS X 10.6.8). (And see pid, timestamp, process name) I've implemented something similar for HP-UX, but it required a kernel-level driver and intercepting several variations of "exit()"…
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AIX: is it somehow possible to get a ForeignAddress/PID pair like we are able to get in Linux with netstat?

In Linux (RHEL), we are able to get a ForeignAddress/PID pair with "netstat -ntp" command: [root@rhel ~]# netstat -ntp Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State …
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Clustered cron with one server only overlap allowed

I've setuped load balancers: lb1 (active) and lb2 (passive), Glustered web servers: web1 (active), web2 (backup), and some clustered database. Both web servers and databases are A pointed to the VIP of the load balancers. Both of web servers have…
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When is a pid needed in log rotation?

I've read that providing pid in the newsyslog.conf is to ensure that the process writes in the new log file. However, I've tried log rotation without providing a pid because I couldn't find one for the process, and it worked (the process wrote new…
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Ubuntu: Postfix and Cyrus expecting saslauthd PID file in different locations

I'm running postfix and cyrus in parallel on my server, as far as I understand this is a quite common think to do. Both daemons use sasl authorization. However, postfix is looking for the saslauthd pid file in /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd…
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screen command process id

First of all sorry for my bad english and i am new at linux. When i do this, it can write process id to pid file start () { echo -n "Starting someserver.jar: " java -jar /home/someserver/someserver.jar & echo $! >…
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Process identifier mask in z/OS

I've noticed a curious pattern to process identifier numbers on the z/OS system I'm working on (uname reports it as OS/390), they're either 1-4 digits long or 8 digits long but never in between. The high PIDs are a little over 16777216, 33554432 or…
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Monit is not restarting process

I have monit to monit a process but it doesn't realize it is down. My monit configuration is this: check process xxx with pidfile /var/run/xxx.pid group yyy start program = "/etc/init.d/xxx start" stop program = "/etc/init.d/xxx stop" if failed…
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How to map an ephemeral port to a pid?

I have a RHEL server with several apps on it and I am attempting to figure out which one of them is making calls to an external web service. I have TCP dumps that show the calls being made and through various tools I am able to determine what…
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What happens when pid_max is reached

As the title suggests, what happens when pid_max (32bit standard is 32768) is reached with many zombie-processes? On our server a user generates a lot of suphp defunct zombie processes and this forces our server to restart... and I think this…
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freebsd pid file not created

Pid files not created in /var/run folder. rc.d script: #!/bin/sh . /etc/rc.subr name=phpcgi rcvar=phpcgi_enable pidfile=/var/run/${name}.pid command=/usr/local/bin/php-cgi load_rc_config $name run_rc_command "$1" it's working fine but the…
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sshd running but no PID file

I'm recently started using monit to monitor the status of sshd on my CentOS 5.4 server. This works fine, but every so often monit reports that sshd is no longer running. This isn't true - I am still able to login to the server via ssh, however I…
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How can I enable pid and ppid fields in psacct dump-acct?

I am currently using the psacct package on Centos to perform accounting on processes run by users. The info file1 suggests that it is possible to output pid and ppid depending on what information your operating system provides in it's struct…
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How to kill these PHP process safely?

I have installed php5 in ubuntu and WordPress. It can run after installed. But after few days I've found there are lots of process and occupied a lot of memories. I try to use ps -aux | grep www-data and found about 30 processes like this. www-data…
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PS Stop-Process fails to stop a subprocess launched from cmd.exe

Preface: I've boiled down a problem I'm having to this simple reproduction, which admittedly looks pretty strange out of context. From powershell (PS), if I use Start-Process to start notepad and capture the process ID, I can kill it with…
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