Bash script to kill all programs and restart them after a minute

Question

I need to write a bash script to kill all programs running on a Linux server and then restarting them, preferably after a minute.

I am new to bash scripting. Please help.

Answer 1

What you probably want is to write a script that kills your services. Then a second script that launches them. Set your crontab to run the first script on minute n, then second script at n+1. That should clear the existing programs and launch them after one minute.

Answer 2

Killing ALL programs would be...not good...as in system crash probably. But if you were so inclined:

#!/bin/bash

processes=`ps aux -A --no-heading | grep -v "NameOfThisScript" | awk '{print $2}'`

for i in $processes; do
    sudo kill -9 $i
done

Ooops, forgot the part about restarting them...