Solaris procutils

These pidof and killcmd programs are based in concept on two similar programs available with most Linux distributions, but no source code from any other program was consulted before, during, or after development.

This is likely of little use to anyone, but I wanted to get this code somewhere other than a tarball on a web server that I may or may not continue to maintain at any point in time.

Build/Install

Edit Makefile to suit your likes, then type make.

Notes

These programs are only known to work under Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, [2.]7, and [2.]8, but I would imagine that they also work under Solaris 2.5 and probably even 2.4. The 2.5.1 settings will compile and run under 2.6, and binaries compiled under 2.5.1 also appear to work under 2.6 and later, but this still requires a setuid-root installation for full functionality. This is, of course, not recommended, as the code for 2.6 does not need to be run as root due to the "new" procfs.

Solaris 2.5.1 note

The programs should be installed setuid-root, but if this is not possible, both programs will still function somewhat usefully. The limits are as follows:

• pidof will not detect programs owned by other users. This also includes any setuid program whose real userid corresponds to the owner of the pidof process.

• killcmd will not be permitted to signal any setuid process whose real userid corresponds to the owner of the killcmd process, and the error reporting will be slightly different when one attempts to signal a process one does not own. Use of the -q option or a source modification is recommended for sanity's sake.