need help to kill a process

[elrondrules]

Hi

Am new to python and need your help!!

this is my code snip.
within my python script I have the following commands..

<snip>

import os
....
os.system ("cd /home; ./TestTool &")
os.system ("cd /usr/; sh run.sh load.xml &")

<snip>

I need to kill these 2 process after a particular job is done.. is
there any way to get the pids of these process and if so how do i
invoke the kill command through os.system..

or else is there anyother way to do this...

thanks

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

this is my code snip.
within my python script I have the following commands..

<snip>

import os
...
os.system ("cd /home; ./TestTool &")
os.system ("cd /usr/; sh run.sh load.xml &")

<snip>

I need to kill these 2 process after a particular job is done.. is
there any way to get the pids of these process and if so how do i
invoke the kill command through os.system..

or else is there anyother way to do this...

If you're using Python>=2.4 you could use the subprocess module.

import subprocess
child1 = subprocess.Popen(["./TestTool"], cwd="/home")
child2 = subprocess.Popen(["sh","run.sh","load.xml"], cwd="/usr")

Popen objects have a pid attribute. You don't have to use os.system to
kill them; use os.kill instead.
You'll notice that I leave out the final &, because I don't know how to
start a background process without using the shell. But I think you can
use: bg [pid], afterwards, to get the same result.

 

[elrondrules]

En Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:59:40 -0300, <[email protected]> escribió:

this is my code snip.
within my python script I have the following commands..

import os
...
os.system ("cd /home; ./TestTool &")
os.system ("cd /usr/; sh run.sh load.xml &")

I need to kill these 2 process after a particular job is done.. is
there any way to get the pids of these process and if so how do i
invoke the kill command through os.system..

or else is there anyother way to do this...

If you're using Python>=2.4 you could use the subprocess module.

import subprocess
child1 = subprocess.Popen(["./TestTool"], cwd="/home")
child2 = subprocess.Popen(["sh","run.sh","load.xml"], cwd="/usr")

Popen objects have a pid attribute. You don't have to use os.system to
kill them; use os.kill instead.
You'll notice that I leave out the final &, because I don't know how to
start a background process without using the shell. But I think you can
use: bg [pid], afterwards, to get the same result.

thx for the reply
os.kill worked fine for the first process.. for the second one the
kill managed to kill the shell but the application is still running..

is there any other work around for this..

thanks

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

import subprocess
child1 = subprocess.Popen(["./TestTool"], cwd="/home")
child2 = subprocess.Popen(["sh","run.sh","load.xml"], cwd="/usr")

Popen objects have a pid attribute. You don't have to use os.system to
kill them; use os.kill instead.
You'll notice that I leave out the final &, because I don't know how to
start a background process without using the shell. But I think you can
use: bg [pid], afterwards, to get the same result.

thx for the reply
os.kill worked fine for the first process.. for the second one the
kill managed to kill the shell but the application is still running..

Don't use the shell, if possible, and replace whatever run.sh does with
python code.