smoketest: bgp: T4163: use explicit kill to respawn bgpd process

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_bgp.py b/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_bgp.py
index 4697d4970..ebc9eeaaa 100755
--- a/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_bgp.py
+++ b/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_protocols_bgp.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 import unittest
 
-from subprocess import run
 from time import sleep
 
 from base_vyostest_shim import VyOSUnitTestSHIM
@@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ from vyos.ifconfig import Section
 from vyos.configsession import ConfigSessionError
 from vyos.template import is_ipv6
 from vyos.utils.process import process_named_running
+from vyos.utils.process import cmd
 
 PROCESS_NAME = 'bgpd'
 ASN = '64512'
@@ -1162,11 +1162,9 @@ class TestProtocolsBGP(VyOSUnitTestSHIM.TestCase):
         mirror_buffer = '32000000'
         bmp_path = base_path + ['bmp']
         target_path = bmp_path + ['target', target_name]
-        command = ['/opt/vyatta/bin/vyatta-op-cmd-wrapper', 'restart', 'bgp']
 
+        # by default the 'bmp' module not loaded for the bgpd expect Error
         self.cli_set(bmp_path)
-        # by default the 'bmp' module not loaded for the bgpd
-        # expect Error
         if not process_named_running('bgpd', 'bmp'):
             with self.assertRaises(ConfigSessionError):
                 self.cli_commit()
@@ -1177,7 +1175,7 @@ class TestProtocolsBGP(VyOSUnitTestSHIM.TestCase):
         self.cli_commit()
 
         # restart bgpd to apply "-M bmp" and update PID
-        run(command, input='Y', text=True)
+        cmd(f'sudo kill -9 {self.daemon_pid}')
         # let the bgpd process recover
         sleep(10)
         # update daemon PID - this was a planned daemon restart