The Light From The Black Hole

Install the SoftLayer's Python library.  pip install softlayer or clone the source code from the github and install from source code. git clone https://github.com/softlayer/softlayer-python.git python setup.py install Once we have installed the SoftLayer Python library we are ready to use it as shown in the following example. You need your username and api key to run the below example. One can get both user name and api key at the following link once you login successfully. https://control.softlayer.com/account/user/profile Accounts username and API key E.g. showing how to use SoftLayer Python library. import SoftLayer from SoftLayer.managers.image import ImageManager client = SoftLayer.Client(username='', api_key='') image_manager = ImageManager(client) mask = "mask[id,name,note]" imageTemplates = image_manager.list_private_images(mask='id,name,note') print("ID - Name - Note") for template in imageTem...

Code : import psutil import os import signal pids = psutil.get_pid_list() for pid in pids: if psutil.Process(pid).name == "process_name": os.kill(pid,signal.SIGHUP) break Steps to follow. 1.Get the PID of the process, in this case  "process_name"   to which you want to send out a SIGHUP signal. 2.Use os.kill(pid,sig) command to send out the SIGHUP signal to that process. 1.Get the PID of the process to which you want to send out a SIGHUP signal. One has to install a package called psutil by the following command. easy_install psutil Check out the following links for more details https://code.google.com/p/psutil/ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psutil use psutil.get_pid_list() to get all of the PIDs. psutil.get_pid_list() works in the following manner.  pids = [ int ( x ) for x in os . listdir ( '/proc' ) if x . isdigit ()] return pids once you get all the PIDs get the PID you are i...