topic Re: Kill Linux process when stop a execution job from SAS STUDIO in SAS Programming

Kill Linux process when stop a execution job from SAS STUDIO

_zeta_ — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:31:47 GMT

¡Hi mates!

Is possible to control from SAS Studio when the user cancel or stop a node in SAS Studio? we want to kill a few Linux process when it occurs!

Thank you very much for your comments.

Re: Kill Linux process when stop a execution job from SAS STUDIO

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:22:17 GMT

If you want to do this from within SAS, XCMD has to be enabled.

Note that non-root users can only kill processes they own; if you need to kill other processes, you need superuser (root) privileges.

Re: Kill Linux process when stop a execution job from SAS STUDIO

quickbluefish — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:28:57 GMT

I think your life will be much easier doing this on the backend with a shell script - maybe one that monitors the nodes assigned to each user? Unless the user is stopping nodes from within a SAS program (as opposed to through the GUI) using x / %sysexec, I'm not sure how the process you're talking about would be kicked off by SAS.