How to kill a bash script running as root from a python script?

[jc_lafleur]

That is what I was attempting to do with this...

import psutil
# this kills the timelapse.sh script to stop taking pictures (didn't work)
PROCNAME = "timelapse.sh"
for proc in psutil.process_iter():
    # check whether the process name matches
    if proc.name() == PROCNAME:
        proc.kill()

But it did not work. The timelapse.sh script was still running after the python script ended, and I didn't get any errors letting me know that it failed to end the bash script. The only way I realized that it had failed was because there were still pictures being written to the SD card after the python script ended. And I verified this with "ps aux" and could still see the timelapse.sh process running.
I was thinking maybe because it is running in the background as root? I don't know. It needs to run as root because if I run the scripts as a user, and then SSH into the Pi while everything is running, it will cause the scripts to 'pause' until I end the SSH login session.

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Gribouillis

Thank you!

That did the trick!

Simple, elegant, awesome!