This is the development version of Kanrisuru. Since this is still a pre-1.0 release, we don't recommend using this in system-critical production environments.

Kanrisuru

kill

Kill a process or set of processes on a remote server in ruby.
linux manual

Basic Usage

require 'kanrisuru'
host = Kanrisuru::Remote::Host.new(host: '127.0.1.1', username: 'ubuntu', keys: ['~/.ssh/id_rsa'])

pid = host.ps(user: 'ubuntu')[0].pid

result = host.kill(9, pid)
result.success?
true

Parameters

Field Type Description
signal integer
string
What signal to send to the process or process groups. Can either be a number or a singal name. See signal for a full list of signals.
pid integer
array
The process id, or array of process ids to send signal to.

Result

No explicit data struct returned, only option is success?, failure?, and status to see if the program exited properly.

Exit Status

Code Description
0 Success
1 Failure
64 Partial success (when more than one process specified)

Tested On

  • Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, Fedora, Redhat, OpenSuse, SLES