[GRLUG] problem with pkill/killall

[Eric Beversluis]

My system has a problem in that its spawning multiple versions of a
command and never ending the earlier versions. Why it's doing so is the
next problem. But first I have to figure out how to kill them.

As nearly as I can tell from the web and the man pages, I should be able
to do that with 'pkill' or with 'killall', using part of the name.

The processes are:

root     27514 27508  0 18:20 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash -c php
-f /var/www/virtual/vtiger.cyberacc.com/modules/CalendarSync/syncCalendarFromGA.php > /home/mundane/etc_cron_rept2.txt 2>&1
root     27517 27507  0 18:20 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash -c php
-f /var/www/virtual/vtiger.cyberacc.com/modules/CalendarSync/syncCalendarFromVT.php > /home/mundane/etc_cron_rept2.txt 2>&1

So it seems I should be able to do:

pkill  syncCalendarFrom

or killall syncCalendarFrom

and thus get rid of all of them. But neither seems to work.

Some of my efforts:
[root at server ~]# pkill syncCalendarFrom
[root at server ~]# pkill "-c php
-f /var/www/virtual/vtiger.server.com/modules/CalendarSync/syncCalendarFromGA.php > /home/mundane/etc_cron_rept2.txt 2>&1"
pkill: invalid option -- 'c'
Usage: pkill [-SIGNAL] [-fvx] [-n|-o] [-P PPIDLIST] [-g PGRPLIST] [-s
SIDLIST]
	[-u EUIDLIST] [-U UIDLIST] [-G GIDLIST] [-t TERMLIST] [PATTERN]
[root at server ~]# pkill "php
-f /var/www/virtual/vtiger.server.com/modules/CalendarSync/syncCalendarFromGA.php > /home/mundane/etc_cron_rept2.txt 2>&1"

??

Thanks.