#!/bin/tcsh -f
#(ie run the tshell on this but don't read the .cshrc or .tcshrc)

echo version = 1.00 of killevj 2005 Jul 8
# 2005 Jul  8, 1.00: origin 

# This is a script to locate and kill the java virtual machine
# when it has been hung by evj

# this is the ps program:
set ps = /bin/ps

# identify the process line:
set process = `$ps -eo user,pid,args|grep "java_vm"|grep -v grep`

echo process line:
echo $process

set pid = `echo $process|tr ' ' '\n'|tail -2|head -1`
echo process id number: $pid

echo kill -9 $pid
kill -9 $pid