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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello Guys,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Finally got around to sitting down to tidy up this script
this morning but I’m having a small syntax problem with os.kill() to kill
a process on my system. Here is the code:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>def killApplication():<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'> pid = file('/var/lock/MyApplication.lock').read().strip()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'> logging.info('Killing Application Process:
%s' % pid)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'> os.kill(pid, 15)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> logging.info('Application
%s Killed' % pid)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>As you can see if rips the PID from the lock file, which
works fine as I get log data which says ‘Killing Application Process:
3079’ exactly as I would expect it too. However when I run this script I
get the following error:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Traceback
(most recent call last):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
File "/pblue/new/Alive.py", line 50, in ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
main()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
File "/pblue/new/Alive.py", line 47, in main<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
doCheck()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
File "/pblue/new/Alive.py", line 43, in doCheck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
killApplication()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
File "/pblue/new/Alive.py", line 28, in killApplication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
os.kill(pid, 15)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>TypeError:
an integer is required<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Which would suggest its passing those arguments in as the
wrong data types to the kill command. What is the best way to convert these?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks guys,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
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