From 3ce79aa55bdadd4be53cee8ad9c0ef5da0ad3749 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesse Andrews <anotherjesse@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 22:52:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] improve kill

---
 tools/build_uec.sh | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/build_uec.sh b/tools/build_uec.sh
index 61709ab..b7567f6 100755
--- a/tools/build_uec.sh
+++ b/tools/build_uec.sh
@@ -166,7 +166,10 @@ instance-type: m1.large
 EOF
 
 # (re)start a metadata service
-lsof -iTCP@192.168.$GUEST_NETWORK.1:4567 -n | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n1 kill -9
+(
+  pid=`lsof -iTCP@192.168.$GUEST_NETWORK.1:4567 -n | awk '{print $2}' | tail -1`
+  [ "$pid" == "PID" ] || kill -9 $pid
+)
 cd $vm_dir/uec
 python meta.py 192.168.$GUEST_NETWORK.1:4567 &