[mrtg] Re: newbie question on killing only one process

[Edward Hartman]

Killing every PERL process to stop one is like shaving your head because 
one hair is longer than the others (friendly sarcasm...).  Actually there 
is a simple way to identify the EXACT Process ID (PID) PERL is using for a 
particular config file.

The Perl script creates a file in the mtrg-2.9.7\bin directory (on NT) 
called xxx.cfg_l (xxx=the prefix of the .cfg file)  This file contains only 
one thing - the PID of the PERL.EXE process that is running the config file.

You can kill a particular xxx.cfg instance without needing to interfere 
with any other process.  Go to NT Task Manager, sort by PID (click on the 
PID column heading), select the process # from the xxx.cfg_l file, hit the 
END PROCESS button.  Life is good!!

HTH

-Eddie

At 03:42 PM 2/19/01 -0500, Jim Hunt wrote:

>There is no specific way to identify one MRTG (perl.exe) Process from
>another.  You just need to kill them all and then restart the 9 good ones
>right away.  It will never make any difference in the graph outputs.  I do
>it frequently when playing.  (I use one big master cfg file and run it as a
>service.)
>
>I like to use the kill.exe command line utility from the NT resource kit.
>This allows me to kill every instance of a program, such as perl.exe, at
>once rather than 1 at a time using the task manager
>
>Jim Hunt
>Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
>Microsoft Network Analyst and Senior Network Administrator
>Hamilton Southeastern School Corporation
>
>My MRTG:  http://204.180.37.238/mrtg
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From:   Garnel, Eric [mailto:egarnel at Question.com]
>Sent:   Monday, February 19, 2001 3:04 PM
>To:     Mrtg (E-mail)
>Subject:        [mrtg] newbie question on killing only one process
>
>In mrtg 2.9.7 (on NT)  is there a way to stop just one instance ?
>For example:  I am running mrtg successfully on 10 devices concurrently and
>I messed up a .cfg file on one of the switches and want to change it.
>It won't let me delete the lock file because it is in use.
>
>Thanks for your assistance in this matter
>
>Eric Garnel
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