Finding and Killing TIBCO Processes on UNIX platforms
Occasionally, as part of resolving problems you may need to kill all running TIBCO processes.
On UNIX platforms, you can use the UNIX command ‘ps’ to list all the processes that are running. However, the standard ‘all’ flag, ‘-a’, does not necessarily work to list low-level TIBCO processes such as TIBCO Rendezvous. To view such processes, you can execute the following command:
# ps -ef | grep <filter>
For example:
# ps -ef | grep tibco
The above results in several lines that look like this:
root 5559 1 0 09:10:02 pts/1 0:18
/opt/tibco/administrator/<version>/bin/tibcoadmin --propfile /opt/
You can force-kill the processes listed by using the ‘kill’ command with the flag -9 and the process ID (the second column from your ‘ps -ef’ command)
# kill -9 5559
Using the -9 flag ensures the process is really dead. Generally speaking, to ensure all TIBCO processes are dead, you should run
ps -ef | grep tibco
ps -ef | grep hawk
and
ps -ef | grep rvd
and verify that no running processes are found.