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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:17:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      Viswanathan Prakash <prakash@ccs.neu.edu>
To:        trini0 <trini0@optonline.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Killing process
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101042016320.15622-100000@bellatrix.ccs.neu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A551F2C.A3F21E10@optonline.net>

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Use the back quotes. Command should be

kill -9 `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, trini0 wrote:

> Its me again.  When I tried kill -9 'cat /var/run/inetd.pid' (just an example), I
> get
> kill: Arguments should be jobs or process id's
> Im thinking its the shell.  Im running 4.2S, so I think its the tcsh shell Im
> using.
> What should I do.
> Thanks
> 
> trini0 wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, guys.
> >
> > John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> > > On 04-Jan-01 trini0 wrote:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > kill `cat /var/run/foo.pid`
> > >
> > > kill takes the pid as its argument.  /var/run/foo.pid is a file that contains
> > > the pid of the process.
> > >
> > > --
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