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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:33:23 -0500
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I cant find out where, but Im trying to kill a process by kill -9
/var/run/*.pid, it keeps saying illegal process.  I checked the archives
but found nothing.  What is the correct syntax to define a process by
/var/run/*.pid.
Thanks

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