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How to start and kill the procedure?

I have some runnable-jar files. I want to run them at regular intervals and also kill those processes after some time. I am a newbie when it comes to Ubuntu or linux in general. Can anybody suggest me...

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Answer by rahmu for How to start and kill the procedure?

The best way would be to create a shell script that runs the the executable, retrieves the PID of the process then kill it after a certain amount of time. You can then add this as a job in your crontab...

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Answer by Matthias Braun for How to start and kill the procedure?

This sounds like a job for cron.

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Answer by Thomas for How to start and kill the procedure?

Use something like#!/bin/bashjava -jar <name-of-the-jar-file> &javapid=$!sleep <some-time-in-seconds>kill $javapidin a file, make it executable (chmod +x ) and run it...

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Answer by Saurabh for How to start and kill the procedure?

For killing a process using kill command, we have to keep track of PID of the process to be killed. So, we have used pkill -f to kill the process. Now, I only have to remember the name of process and...

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