EDIT: kill_gracefull_finishing_apache_process.sh

#!/bin/bash echo "kill gracefully stuck startup of apache childs.. " httpd fullstatus | awk '{print $2,$4}' | grep G | awk '{print $1}' | sort -u | grep "^[0-9]*$" | sort -n | while read -r pida do pidc=$(ps -p $pida -Ocommand | grep http | wc -l) if [ $pidc -gt 0 ] ; then kill -9 $pida echo "killing $pida " fi done echo " " echo " done." echo " "

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