Possible to Remotely Kill Process on LAN Workstation Using Terminal?

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Possible to Remotely Kill Process on LAN Workstation Using Terminal?

Is it possible to login to a separate workstation on my LAN and kill a process on that machine? If so, what are the commands? I do not have OS X Server. ARD is running on the machine I want to remote into and I want to kill it.

I can remote into a separate machine and see this one up and running in finder.

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Ebola

Dual 2Ghz Power Mac/2 Ghz Core Duo MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Jan 11, 2010 2:26 PM

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etresoft

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Jan 11, 2010 5:53 PM in response to Ebola

Ebola wrote:
Is it possible to login to a separate workstation on my LAN and kill a process on that machine?

Yes.

If so, what are the commands?

ps to find the process and kill to kill it.

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Ebola Author

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Jan 11, 2010 6:13 PM in response to etresoft

Thank you for your post etresoft.

I am not seeing the true process list. It appears to be suppressed. The XXX user is an administrator account. Sudo PS did not help either.

Last login: Mon Jan 11 18:50:23 on ttys000
MPB:~ XXX$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
2073 ttys000 0:00.01 -bash
MPB:~ XXX$

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Ebola Author

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Jan 11, 2010 6:15 PM in response to Ebola

I used the top command to find the process id. Not sure why ps did not work.

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etresoft

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Jan 11, 2010 6:20 PM in response to Ebola

ps -ajxww should give you lots of information.

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Answer 5

BobHarris

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Jan 11, 2010 6:25 PM in response to Ebola

Try


ps ax | grep -i nameofprogram

Column 1 will have the process ID


kill -HUP process_id

-HUP will signal the process that it is being requested to shutdown cleanly.

If -HUP does not work, then go for -KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill)


kill -KILL process_id

Or you could try the "killall" command which accepts a process name


killall -HUP program_name
# -or-
killall -KILL program_name

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Ebola Author

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Jan 11, 2010 6:36 PM in response to BobHarris

Thank you very much!

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