Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:48:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@telerama.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Shell Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102152040050.562-100000@bigdaddy.localdomain>
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/usr/local/etc/rc.d to fire up at boot time.
How do I get the pid of the job I'm placing in the bg?
The script is: mystuff {start|stop}
In mystuff I bg a job by: my_script &
How do I get the PID of my_script so that I can use
it to kill the job when I: mystuff stop
I'm looking for something like: PID=my_script &
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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 & FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE
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