TS/MP 2.5 System Management Manual

Stopping the PATHMON Process
If shutdown cannot complete, you can stop the PATHMON primary and backup processes by
issuing this PATHCOM command:
= STOP PATHMON
This command stops the PATHMON primary and backup processes and writes a termination
message to the log file.
NOTE: The STOP PATHMON command is valid only if you have already issued a SHUTDOWN2
command.
When stopping the PATHMON process, you must consider that processes started by the PATHMON
process are no longer under control and might still be running. You must find and stop these
“orphan” processes. One way to stop orphan processes is to use a TACL routine. Example 2
(page 49) shows a TACL routine that, for a local system, first stops all children of a given process
ID and then stops the process ID. For more information on using TACL routines, see the TACL
Reference Manual and the TACL Programming Guide.
48 Starting and Stopping a PATHMON Environment